Robert Macfarlane Written by a nature writer who was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize 2012, this title offers an exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt old paths, of the... | Siobhan Wall Quiet London is a guide to interesting, attractive and quiet places to meet, drink, eat, swim, rest, shop, sleep or read. It includes short descriptions, travel and contact details and... |
Judith Schalansky An atlas that takes us across the oceans of the world to fifty remote islands. It features rare animals and lost explorers, marooned slaves and lonely scientists, mutinous sailors and... | Phaidon Editors Forget the restaurant guides compiled by a panel of mysterious experts, this guide is by the real insiders: more than 400 of the world's leading chefs. Listing their favourite places... |
Lynn Schooler The stirring memoir of one man's harrowing solo adventure in the Alaskan wilderness, and his discoveries about the home he leaves behind. | Simon Garfield Maps have the most amazing stories. Suitable for mapophiles, this book offers narratives on everything from the challenge of mapping the oceans to spellbinding treasure maps to the naming of... |
Patrick Dalton Shit London explores the world of ill-conceived community art, poorly named shops, cheeky graffiti, bad translations, comical signs and the unintentionally funny scenes that surround Londoners everyday. | Iain Sinclair Burrowing under the perimeter fence of the grandest of Grand Projects - the giant myth that is 2012's London Olympics - Ghost Milk explores a landscape under sentence of death... |
Michael Symmons Roberts; Paul Farley Passed through, negotiated, unacknowledged: the edgelands - those familiar yet ignored spaces which are neither city nor countryside - have become the great wild places on our doorsteps. This title... | Jason Hawkes Presents a visual portrait of the British Isles throughout the year. This title lets you explore various corners of Britain from majestic mountain landscapes and haunting medieval ruins to magnificent... |
Michael Lewis Europe is in serious financial chaos. In Greece, infrastructure costs mean it would be cheaper to transport all Greek rail passengers by taxi. In Iceland, Range Rovers frequently explode as... | George Bradshaw A guide to Europe's rail network on the very brink of the First World War. Published in 1913, it is divided into three sections: timetables for services covering the continent... |
Patrick Dalton 'Nobody is healthy in London. Nobody can be.' Jane Austen Once all the hype, hyperbole and hysteria of the 2012 Olympics has quickly been discarded in the nostalgia... | Matteo Pericoli From the author of the bestselling, wonderfully unique and iconic book Manhattan Unfurled, comes an equally brilliant and utterly unprecedented portrait of London. |
Penelope Rowlands Describes how the authors were seduced by Paris and then began to see things differently. They came to write, to cook, to find love, to study, to raise children, to... | Stuart Maconie Deals with the places, people and events that have shaped modern Britain. Starting with the death of Queen Victoria, to the Battle of the Somme and the General Strike, and... |