Literary

Many of the greatest names in literature have visited or made their home in the colourful and diverse metropolis of London. From Charles Dickens to George Orwell, Virginia Woolf to Bernadine Evaristo, London's writers have bought the city to life through...

Final Approach charts the turbulent flightpath between a jetsetting father and a planespotting son. The 1970s were the final gasp of the Golden Age of Flying. Mark Blackburn grew up amidst this fuel-guzzling splendour, with airports his playground of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987706126Author Janice Leith WaughFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Solo TravelerPublisher Full Flight PressWeight(grams) 162g

V. S. Naipaul's first travel book, The Middle Passage, takes us on a rich and emotional journey to a place of the greatest interest - his birthplace.In 1960, Dr Eric Williams, the first Prime Minister of independent Trinidad, invited V. S. Naipaul to...

Beyond Belief is a book about one of the more important and unsettling issues of our time. But it is not a book of opinion. It is, in the Naipaul way, a very rich and human book, full of people and their stories: stories of family, both broken and whole;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632060556Author Andres NeumanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Restless BooksPublisher Restless Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345527271Author Matthew GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771605755Author Todd LawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Rocky Mountain BooksPublisher Rocky Mountain Books

A Book Lover s Guide to New York is a love letter to everything literary in New York City. It is a book all about books. The book is an object in itself, designed as the ultimate little tome any book collector would love to acquire, layered with witty...

Priceless Wisdom from a Modern Tao Te Ching Odyssey"...this book will completely absorb your attention from the beginning..." -Emanuele Pettener, PhD, assistant professor of Italian and writer in residence at Florida Atlantic University#1 New Release in...

"A lot of people will be interested in the famous bookshops of the world: Jorge Carrion has gone and visited them all. We can't travel right now, but we can travel in books." MARGARET ATWOODWhy do bookshops matter? How do they filter our ideas and...

Richard Paul Roe spent more than twenty years traveling the length and breadth of Italy to seek out and document the exact locations in which Shakespeare set his ten Italian Plays. Using as his compass only the exact lines spoken by characters in each...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620401378Author Pierre BayardFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 319g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620401378Author Pierre BayardFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 319g

A guide to Iceland's rich literary heritage - from Norse witches to contemporary crime fiction. Iceland is an island of multiple identities in constant flux, just like its unruly, volcanic ground. Shaped as much by storytelling as it is by tectonic...

In early 2009 a strange sort of business plan landed on the desk of a pinstriped bank manager. It had pictures of rats and moles in rowing boats and archaic quotes about Cleopatra's barge. It asked for a GBP30,000 loan to buy a black-and-cream narrowboat...

The Invisible City explores urban spaces from the perspective of a traveler, writer, and creator of theatre to illuminate how cities offer travelers and residents theatrical visions whilst also remaining mostly invisible, beyond the limits of attention. ...

A unique and captivating guide to the literary heritage of Venice. Venice, La Serenissima, is one of the most breath-taking cities in the world. From its earliest beginnings in the 7th century, Venice has been a magnetic centre of trade and culture,...

A Turn in the South is a reflective journey by V. S. Naipaul in the late 1980s through the American South. Naipaul writes of his encounters with politicians, rednecks, farmers, writers and ordinary men and women, both black and white, with the insight...

Hit the road with this collection of 200 epic bike rides across Australia and New Zealand. Cycle along Tasmania's Bay of Fires Trail or pedal through the South Island's misty native forest on the Old Ghost Road. Featuring 50 first-person stories and a...

The Victorian era was the high point of literary tourism. Writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Sir Walter Scott became celebrities, and readers trekked far and wide for a glimpse of the places where their heroes wrote and thought, walked...

'Humorous, emotional and useful...Don't read Departures if you've got any annual leave left to play with'GraziaHave you ever turned up on a post-heartbreak holiday hopelessly unprepared and been forced to sleep on the floor wrapped up in a curtain? How...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorDave Kyu is a socially-engaged artist, writer, and project manager. Born in Seoul, South Korea and raised in the United States, he explores the creative tensions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901091786Author J. P. SperatiFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint Irregular Special PressPublisher Baker Street StudiosWeight(grams) 229gDimensions(mm)...

From their faithful camper van to boats, kayaks, bicycles, and motorbikes, join stars of Outlander Sam and Graham on a road trip with a difference, as two Scotsmen explore a land of raw beauty, poetry, feuding, music, history, and warfare. Unlikely...

Barry Forshaw is acknowledged as a leading expert on crime fiction and film. Following his books on Nordic Noir, Brit Noir and Euro Noir he now tackles the largest and, some might argue, most impressive body of crime fiction from a single country, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739897161Author Robert BrucePage Count 2Imprint Herb Lester Associates LtdPublisher Herb Lester Associates LtdWeight(grams) 75gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Paris is the crowning jewel of France, and this literary guide for travellers explores its 20th century history, from 1900-1950. Paris at the turn of the twentieth century had become the cultural capital of the world. Artists and writers came to...

HERE, THERE, ELSEWHERE draws together for the first time William Least Heat-Moon's greatest short-form travel writing. From Japan, England, Italy, and Mexico to Long Island, Oregon, Arizona, and more, HERE, THERE, ELSEWHERE is a sharply observed, funny,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780395911501Author Edward E. LeslieFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 563g

In June 1939 Annemarie Schwarzenbach and fellow writer Ella Maillart set out from Geneva in a Ford, heading for Afghanistan. The first women to travel Afghanistan's Northern Road, they fled the storm brewing in Europe to seek a place untouched by what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789152770931Author Martin ThelanderPage Count 2Imprint Paris GrafikPublisher Paris GrafikWeight(grams) 17gDimensions(mm) 148mm * 105mm * 1mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143169574Author Ted BishopFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

During forty years of travel, V. S. Naipaul has created a wide-ranging body of work, an exceptional and sustained meditation on our world. Now his finest pieces of reflection and reportage - many of which have been unavailable for some time - are...

In Contact! Jan turns her brilliantly observant eye to the human contacts she made, across the globe and though the decades. As a series of vignettes, some only a few lines long, she records hundreds of brief glimpses and fleeting encounters, celebrating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385343374Author Rachel FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Bantam Dell Publishing Group, Div of Random House, IncPublisher Random House USA...

In the hills above Florence, Santa Maddalena is like a secret garden where writers hone their craft and meet like-minded people. Paired with evocative images, these essays by 27 acclaimed authors invite readers to understand how the spirit of this...

Into the heart of one of the world's most alluring cities through the imaginations of over 50 writers and artists. "Barcelona is a fountain of courtesy, shelter of strangers...land of the valiant, avenger of the offended, reciprocator of firm...

What is joie de vivre, and why is it a fundamentally French concept? In search of those ineffable qualities that make up the joy of living, this lively book takes readers on a voyage to France through forays into literature, history, and culture. How...

When Jessa Crispin was thirty, she burned her settled Chicago life to the ground and took off for Berlin with a pair of suitcases and no plan beyond leaving. Half a decade later, she's still on the road, in search not so much of a home as of...