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From the author of the smash-hit Around the World in 80 Trains comes a new globetrotting journey - this time celebrating the peculiar magic and mayhem of the night train.The wonder of...

A 45,000-Mile Adventure When Monisha Rajesh announced plans to circumnavigate the globe in eighty train journeys, she was met with wide-eyed disbelief. But it wasn't long before she was carefully...

An Islamic Journey ‘This book investigates the Islamic revolution and tries to understand the fundamentalist zeal that has gripped the young in Iran and other Muslim countries . . ....

Lessons From More Than 100 Retreats From the bestselling author of The Art of Stillness, a revelatory exploration of the abiding clarity and calm to be found in quiet retreatOver the...

INDEPENDENT BEST TRAVEL BOOK OF 2024Good Housekeeping Travel Book of the MonthA LoveReading Best Book of 2024Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best Travel Books 2024 "Travel at its best - life...

His narrative skill is spectacular. One returns with pleasure to the slow hand-in-hand revelations of both India and himself’ – The Times  An Area of Darkness is V. S. Naipaul’s semi-autobiographical account...

Finding Paradise in a Divided World One of our most perceptive travel writers embarks on an exploration of the world's holiest places and where we might find paradise on Earth....

A fiance. An old flame. And five days in Florence... Maddie is over the moon when her boyfriend Nick proposes in Paris. And spending five days in Florence with his family...

When a mother and daughter take the overseas trip of a lifetime, they discover that the past is never quite behind them. When Indigenous lawyer Jasmine decides to take her...

Niro is a photographer who’s lost the joy of taking photos. Burned by a bad break-up, she’s in desperate need of inspiration.Vimal is determined to win back his ex-girlfriend. When...

My Journey as an OutsiderWhether negotiating the mind-games of border security services or performing ablutions in a London bathroom, Mohammad Chowdhury’s life travelling the world brings daily challenges.Border Crossings is...

A beautifully atmospheric memoir and travelogue from poet Amryl Johnson depicting her journey from the UK to Trinidad in the 1980sSequins for a Ragged Hem narrates Johnson's return tour to...