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New and Recommended: Travel Writing

Selected by the Bookshop


Explore the world from the comfort of your sofa, armchair, bath or equivalent, with this selection of new titles from our Travel Writing section.

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'Colquhoun's unique artistic vision shines through like at no time in recent history' - Art UK'Colquhoun's time-travelling survey of Cornwall's culture and history brings ghosts and dead landscapes to life all around you' - Stewart…

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Selected and introduced by John Hatt.Collected here, from a period of nearly five decades, are thirty-six of Norman Lewis’s best articles. In each, his writing crackles with poker-faced wit and stylistic brilliance. As a witness to…

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Translated by Katy DerbyshireNature and travel writing by award-winning Hungarian-born Swiss-German author.A narrator and her dog are criss-crossing the Swiss Alps. She travels with friends who share her interest in food, languages and…

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In Brightening from the East Ken Worpole explores a unique ‘region of the mind’ – the Thames Estuary and the marshland landscapes of the East Anglian shoreline. In this wide-ranging collection of essays, personal and…

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An intimate, personal exploration of the emotional and restorative power of the Lake District landscape and its poets.In her twenties, Esther Rutter suffered an acute mental breakdown while living in Japan. Sectioned and held in a Japanese…

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An exploration of night – the nocturnal world, insomnia, the creative potential of the dark hours, the work that happens at night to keep the modern world moving – by Sunday Times bestselling author Dan RichardsThere…

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An essential guide to one of the world’s most remarkable, and often misunderstood, cities by the author of Why the Dutch Are Different.When Ben Coates injures his leg and needs to rebuild his strength by walking, he finds himself…

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The epic, multi-millennia story of humanity’s obsession with the North Pole, from Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge who travelled there in 1990‘Extraordinary’ ANNE APPLEBAUM‘Thrilling . . . a record of an…

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