New and Recommended: Travel Writing

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A celebration of the beauty and mysteries of the British pub, and how it changes through seasons, by award-winning beer writer Adrian Tierney-Jones"A hymn to the unique charms of the British pub ... Elegiac, moving and as satisfying as a…

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An illuminating personal and cultural history of travel, Airplane Mode asks: What does it mean to be a joyous traveller when we live in the ruins of colonialism? The conditions of travel have long been dictated by the colours of passports…

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D. H. Lawrence and David Bowie struggled with being there. Comedians have found it a convenient trope for the philistine and banal. The ‘Croydon facelift’ has become a snobbish putdown. Riots and burning buildings in 2011…

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An intimate and revelatory eyewitness account of two generations of students in China's heartland, chronicling a country in the midst of tumultuous change through the prism of its education systemMore than twenty years after teaching…

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A look inside the hidden world of London's private members' clubs, from the late-eighteenth century to the present. If we think of these clubs as predominantly white, male and aristocratic, we could not be more wrong. Their true story is…

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An immersive history of a pivotal stretch of water‘Fascinating, spellbinding, erudite and great fun.’ Roddy Doyle‘Remarkable. Lively … Gower writes beautifully [and] the book is profoundly popular.’ Times…

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An exploration of isolation and connectedness based on thirty years of travel, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Adventures in Human Being and Empire AntarcticaSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE…

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Translated from the Norwegian by Seán KinsellaA first-hand account of 19th century adventure and exploration, translated into English for the first timeSiberia, to me, is a fairy-tale land.Fritz Dörries set out on his first trip…

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WINNER OF THE ELWYN HARTLEY-EDWARDS AWARD FOR EQUINE WRITING, 2023.Tiffany Francis-Baker explores how the relationship between humans and horses has shaped the British landscape and how this connection has become part of our nation's…

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A beautifully illustrated guide to over seventy-five important journeys in world literature, spanning more than thirty countries and twenty-five hundred yearsFrom Homer’s Odyssey, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and…

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A love letter to life on the remote British islands of Shetland and to a wilder way of living, from one of our most celebrated poets.'Storm Pegs perfectly captures the knotting of language and landscape. I was transported.' - Katherine…

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The Barbican is a radical model of city living and a symbol of post-war optimism. Today, it’s home to around 4,000 people – half the population of the City of London, the ancient heart of the capital where the building resides.…

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Part travel-writing, part memoir, part social history of Cornwall'I can't think of a more enjoyable or more illuminating guide to Cornwall than Petroc Trelawny, who knows it intimately, loves it deeply, and shares it generously' - THE…