New and Recommended: Travel Writing
Selected by the Bookshop
Explore the world from the comfort of your sofa, armchair, bath or equivalent, with this selection of new titles from our Travel Writing section.
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Translated by Megan McDowellIn Somebody is Walking on Your Grave, Mariana Enriquez blends journalistic rigour and her fascination with the macabre as we encounter famous graveyards steeped in history, such as Montparnasse in…
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‘No one has revealed more occluded or buried sources of fascination to me than Tom Bolton, and with this book he has excelled himself.’ Tom Holland‘Awesome in the true sense of the word, Bolton’s brilliant and…
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A dazzling, soul-stirring journey through the lost and endangered crafts that shaped Britain from multi-award-winning historian and broadcaster James FoxBritain was once a craft land. For generations what we made with our hands shaped our…
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A hybrid of memoir, travel and cultural history that explores how water altered LA and the history of film‘Outrageously good … An unforgettable book’ – OLIVIA LAING‘Reverie and…
Recommended by David
‘A century ago, Seven Dials, just a few minutes walk from the shop, was a shabby, cosmopolitan working-class district, not quite Bloomsbury, not quite Covent Garden. It was also, as Matt Houlbrook shows in his powerful study, a microcosm for the tensions and conflicts that defined British society then, and continue to define it now.’
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A revelatory journey into the Spanish Civil War’s physical and visual legacies, investigating how conflict is memorialised, and obscured, today.Fifty years after Franco’s death, and almost ninety since the Civil War began, the…
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A hugely original tour of Great Britain by acclaimed historian Graham Robb, which takes a fresh look at the people, places and events which have – for better or worse – shaped a nation.'Graham Robb has found a new format for…
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No city shaped the modern world quite like London - a powerhouse of trade, finance and empire, the centre of global influence in the nineteenth century. But beyond the familiar stories of power and politics, its true life played out in…
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An exploration of night – the nocturnal world, insomnia, the creative potential of the dark hours, the work that happens at night to keep the modern world moving – by Sunday Times bestselling author Dan RichardsThere…
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From the acclaimed writer and journalist, a vivid and wide-ranging portrait of love, sex and loneliness in contemporary JapanNo sex. No kids. No future?When Tom Feiling moved to Tokyo as a student in the early nineties, Japan was a beacon…
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