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By: J. R. Ackerley
ISBN: 9780141189253
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2009
UK Publication Date: 26th March 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Describes a Maharajah's eccentric habits and riddling conversations, and the odd shambling day-to-day life of his court.
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By: Will Ferguson
ISBN: 9781841952888
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2003
UK Publication Date: 5th June 2003
Publisher: Canongate Books
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'A very gifted writer' BILL BRYSON
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By: Dan Richards
ISBN: 9780571310661
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2014
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A beautiful piece of nature writing, illustrated with spectacular etchings of woodland scenes.
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By: Pete Brown
ISBN: 9780330511865
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2010
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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One man's search for the beer that built the British Empire: the original IPA
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By: Barry Lopez
ISBN: 9781529111248
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 12th March 2020
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Benedict Allen
ISBN: 9780571206278
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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From the vast island of Sumatra, Benedict Allen brings back the strangest of travellers' tales concerning black-maned ape-men as Theodore Hull - octogenarian survivor of Japanese labour camps - entices him onto the trail of the Gugu.
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By: Laurie Lee
ISBN: 9780241237175
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2015
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When author first left his country village aged nineteen, he discovered a delight in the outside world that remained undiminished throughout his writing life. In this book, he brings together pieces including recollections of his Gloucestershire childhood celebrated in Cider With Rosie.
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By: Emma Kennedy
ISBN: 9780091935962
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
UK Publication Date: 26th April 2012
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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This never happened to Jack Kerouac.
A startlingly honest and ridiculously funny book, I Left My Tent in San Francisco tells the miraculous story of how the hapless pair made it back alive to tell the disastrous tale.
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By: Christopher Winn
ISBN: 9781785036576
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
UK Publication Date: 2nd March 2017
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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This charming book takes you through the counties of England, exploring Saxon churches, reflective of simple faith; Norman churches with rugged arches and powerful pillars, stamping their authority, gothic churches with their soaring arches; Decorated and Perpendicular churches made glorious with Early English style and craftsmanship;
(Paperback)
By: Christopher Winn
ISBN: 9781785034688
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2016
UK Publication Date: 4th August 2016
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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In I Never Knew That About New York Christopher Winn digs beneath the gleaming towers and mean streets of New York and discovers its secrets and its hidden treasures.
(Paperback)
By: Christopher Winn
ISBN: 9781785031021
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
UK Publication Date: 26th February 2015
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Explore Britain's greatest collection of castles from the first stone fortress at Chepstow to Britain's finest concentric castle at Beaumaris and the magnificent Caernarvon, birthplace of the first Prince of Wales.
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By: Horatio Clare
ISBN: 9781784706791
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2019
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Emma Sky
ISBN: 9781786495600
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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The story of one woman's journey throughout the Middle East during the Arab Spring, in a quest for hope, humanity, and home in the aftermath of the Iraq war.
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By: Tahir Shah
ISBN: 9780553818765
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2009
UK Publication Date: 12th March 2009
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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Collects traditional stories of Morocco that are recounted by an eccentric cast of characters: from master masons who work only at night to Sufi wise men who write for soap operas and Tuareg guides addicted to reality TV.
(Hardback)
By: Jeff Biggers
ISBN: 9781685890261
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 23rd May 2023
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Roy Hattersley
ISBN: 9780349121093
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2010
UK Publication Date: 7th October 2010
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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* A charming, first-person celebration of England and Englishness by our foremost politician-turned-writer, out now in paperback
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By: Christopher Robbins
ISBN: 9781861971098
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2008
UK Publication Date: 10th April 2008
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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Borat has got it all wrong .
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By: Colin Thubron
ISBN: 9780099459262
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2008
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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This is the account of Thubron's 15,000-mile journey through an astonishing country - one twelfth of the land surface of the whole earth.
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By: Pete Jordan
ISBN: 9780061995200
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
UK Publication Date: 20th June 2013
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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When Pete's story begins, his goals for an upcoming semester abroad are clear: study how to make America's cities more bicycle friendly, and then return home to his new bride, Amy Joy. Once he sets foot in Amsterdam, however, Pete falls immediately in love with the city that already lives life on two wheels.
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By: William Dalrymple
ISBN: 9780006544159
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1990
UK Publication Date: 20th September 1999
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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One of the most successful, influential and acclaimed travel books of recent years from the author of Return of a King, which has been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize.
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By: Matthew Parris
ISBN: 9781857990768
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1993
UK Publication Date: 5th August 1993
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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A tale of travel and adventure.
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By: Oliver Balch
ISBN: 9780571259267
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2013
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Oliver Balch travels around India telling true stories from the front line of an emerging economy.
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By: Mark Tully
ISBN: 9781846040184
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2008
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Sir Mark Tully is one of the world's leading writers and broadcasters on India, and the presenter of the much loved radio programme 'Something Understood'. This work reveals the profound impact India has had on his life and beliefs. Through interviews and anecdotes, it embarks on a journey that takes in the various faces of India.
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By: Henrietta Lovell
ISBN: 9780571324392
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2019
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Embark on an exotic globe-trotting journey to discover the pleasures of real tea.
