Christmas 2024: Travel
Selected by the Bookshop
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‘A classic in the making for our times’ MONIQUE ROFFEY‘Haunting, beautiful…Anima will live with me for a long time’ CAL FLYN‘A beautiful book of passion and adventure… She is simply…
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The definitive guide to the stone circles of Britain and Ireland From Stonehenge and the Ring of Brogdar to the Rollright Stones and Avebury, the British and Irish Isles are scattered with the stone circles of our prehistoric…
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Exploring Paris arm in arm with Balzac, nineteenth-century France’s most famous novelist and observerIn Balzac’s vast Human Comedy, a body of ninety-one completed novels and stories, he endeavoured to create a complete…
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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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SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE ONDAATJE PRIZE 2024BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ACCORDING TO…
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A Guardian Book of the Year‘With exquisite perceptiveness she explores the way we shape and are shaped by the landscapes we inhabit.’ New StatesmanI have been completely captivated by the poet Fiona…
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An intimate, riveting portrait of modern Turkey, combining memoir, politics and history.'Captivating. Kent effortlessly weaves travels that are close to his heart into a bigger story of Turkey’s past and present' – Mishal…
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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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'An absolute treasure trove of sound advice and historical detail' Katherine May'A delightful and a profound meditation on the variety of human experience' Ian Mortimer'Lara Maiklem is a phenomenon. She elevates trudging around in the mud…
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The story of how Rebanks found life-changing friendship in the least likely of places – a tiny, rugged island on the edge of the Arctic.From the No.1 bestselling author of The Shepherd's Life, a spellbinding story of friendship,…
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Writers' Journeys That Shaped Our World invites you to follow in the footsteps of some of the world’s most famous authors on the travels that inspired their greatest works. Follow in the footsteps of some of the…
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Translated from the Dutch by Jane Hedley-Prôle and Jonathan ReederA beautifully imaginative work of non-fiction about the Rhine, from its birth to the present day, told through stories of those who lived along its shores."A joy to…
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A stunning literary memoir about the author's relationship with a cove in CornwallFor over five decades Beth Lynch has been drawn back, over and again, to a rocky spot on the North Cornwall coast. Her earliest memories of the cove are bound…
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