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If travel broadens the mind, then a good travel book can open up new horizons. Whether you're a sunseeker or a culture vulture, whether you're looking for five star options or a budget break, we have a guide which will tell you all you need to know. We carry all the popular series, including Lonely Planet, Rough Guides, Time Out and Bradt, as well as more specialist guides for those venturing off the beaten track, and maps and atlases to help you find your way there (and back).

Our London section contains everything you need to know, with guides to hotels, food and drink, and attractions for every taste. And we can help you plan your trip beyond the capital too, with hotel directories and walking guides for the whole of Britain, including a full range of Ordnance Survey maps. We also carry travel literature, from earnest adventurers exploring the untrodden wildernesses of the world to cultural tours of fascinating societies, written by explorers from the intrepid to the hapless.

You can email any queries to travel@foyles.co.uk, or phone us on +44 (0) 20 7437 5660.

Book of the Month

The Secret Life of France The Secret Life of France
Lucy Wadham

In this candid and funny account of her escape from English boys and her love affair with a Frenchman, Lucy Wadham describes the mutual bafflement and fascination that characterised both her subsequent marriage and her unfolding relationship with France. Using her own personal experiences over 25 years, Lucy offers a rare insider's view of a nation that may be deeply incompatible with ours but is also, she thinks, chronically misunderstood. She leads us on a journey through the French moral maze, and examines French attitudes to a range of subjects, from marriage and adultery to work and race relations. By taking apart the cliches she helps us gain a better understanding of this nearest and most alien of neighbours, and suggests that on some matters we have much to learn from them.

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The Shell Country Alphabet
Geoffrey Grigson

The Shell Country Alphabet Geoffrey Grigson, wife of Jane and father of Sophie, was a much-respected critic, as well as a poet and a writer on subjects as diverse as art and botany. In the 1960s, he travelled all over England recording the wonders and secret sites off the beaten track, from green men, cross-legged knights and weathercocks to mazes, dene-holes and sham ruins, via avenues, dewponds and village greens.

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Three Ways to Capsize a Boat
Chris Stewart

Three Ways to Capsize a Boat On the tenth anniversary of the publication of Driving Over Lemons, to which there were two sequels, A Parrot in the Pepper Tree and The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society, Chris Stewart publishes the story of what happened before he and his wife set up their farm in Spain. He landed his dream job skippering a boat around the Greek islands, with only the minor drawback of having never sailed before.

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The Most Amazing Places to Walk in Britain

The Most Amazing Places to Walk in Britain This guide features 200 walks through Britain's most beautiful and tranquil countryside, from gentle riverside rambles to more challenging hill-top walks, making it suitable both for the family on a day out and for more seasoned hikers. There are detailed directions, comprehensive maps and stunning photographs to give you an idea of what lies ahead.

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Delhi
Sam Miller

Delhi Sam Miller sets out to discover the real Delhi, a city he describes as being 'India's dreamtown - and its purgatory', in search of here and now, the unexpected, the ignored and the eccentric, passing by the ancient monuments and modern celebrities. Its true denizens, from ragpickers to physics professors, provide a richly entertaining cast in a city in constant flux, and before long Miller feels part of it himself.

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Hidden Treasures of England
Michael McNay

Hidden Treasures of England Avoid the crowds at England's more celebrated tourist spots. The Roman villa at Lullingstone in Kent, the Victorian murals at Manchester Town Hall and the medieval sculptures at Lanercost Priory in Cumbria are just some of the hidden treasures McNay reveals. Whether an entire building or a single painting, a remote location or a sight lost in the city's bustle, there is always something new to be discovered.

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Underground England
Stephen Smith

Underground England The author of Underground London, one of Foyles'perennial bestsellers, goes further afield, exploring the unknown country beneath ploughed fields, cliff tops and market towns. He explores underground waterways, priest holes, haunted tunnels, the resting-places of mythical kings, the military excavations below Chatham and the secret labyrinth quarried out under Liverpool by a religious eccentric.

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All at Sea
Tim Fitzhigham

All at Sea Following his unprecedented crossing of the Channel by bath, and a Thomas Crapper copper original at that, comedian Tim FitzHigham was whisked off to meet the Queen; she was overheard to say afterwards, 'I think I've just met the maddest man in my kingdom.' His adventure is proof that the Great British eccentric is still with us and that the border between madness and genius may not actually exist at all.

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On the Couch
Fleur Britten

On the Couch Couchsurfing is a global internet community of over a million people in almost every country in the world offering fellow members a place to bed down for the night. There are even 30 places to bunk up in Antarctica. So one Sunday Times travel writer decides to enter into the spirit of it all, travelling back from Beijing stopping off on unfamiliar sofas on the way, before playing host to couchsurfers herself in London.

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Bandit Roads
Richard Grant

Bandit Roads In the Sierra Madre, the nearest thing to law enforcement is the presence of the brutal drug cartels, and an AK-47 is de rigueur. Despite warnings that he probably wouldn't make it back alive, Richard Grant went off to explore a surreal and sinister realm of canyons and isolated villages, where homicide is the most common cause of death and grandmothers sell cocaine. And where strangers tend to get shot at.

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These are the Days That Must Happen to You
Dan Walsh

These are the Days That Must Happen to You South America is the promised land for the adventurous biker, where the adrenaline rush lasts the whole trip. Caught up in a revolution in Buenos Aires, struck down with typhoid in a dilapidated Bolivian hotel and held up at gunpoint by a one-armed, one-legged midget, Walsh's story is an angry, narcotic-fuelled trek through the unknown. And like a true biker pilgrim, with the book written, he's back on the road.

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    Paul Theroux

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    Ryszard Kapuscinski

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    James Bainbridge

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