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Travel writing
Great Railway Bazaar
By Paul Theroux
Paperback
Published 27-Mar-2008
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Gives an account of the author's journey by rail through Asia. This work describes the many places, cultures, sights and sounds he experienced and the fascinating people he met. It also shows how he is drawn into conversation with fellow passengers, from Molesworth, while avoiding the forceful approaches of pimps and drug dealers.
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Old Ways
By Robert Macfarlane
Hardback
Published 07-Jun-2012
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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 stories our tracks keep and tell, of pilgrimage and ritual, and of songlines and their singers.
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Sightlines
By Kathleen Jamie
Paperback
Published 05-Apr-2012
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Offers a fresh look at the authors native Scottish landscapes, before sailing north into iceberg-strewn seas. Her gaze swoops vertiginously too; from a countryside of cells beneath a hospital microscope, to killer whales rounding a headland, to the constellations of satellites that belie our sense of the remote.
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Snowdon
By Jim Perrin
Hardback
Published 22-Nov-2012
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The life-story of the British mainland's finest mountain through Jim Perrin's words.
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Wild
By Cheryl Strayed
Paperback
Published 01-Jan-2013
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Wild is angry, brave, sad, self-knowing, redemptive, raw, compelling, and brilliantly written, and I think it's destined to be loved by a lot of people, men and women, for a very long time.' Nick Hornby
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Wild Places
By Robert Macfarlane
Paperback
Published 07-Jul-2008
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Explores our ideas of the wild. This book also tells the story of a friendship, and of a loss. It mixes history, memory and landscape in a strange and beautiful evocation of wildness and its vital importance.
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Watermark: an Essay on Venice
By Joseph Brodsky
Paperback
Published 28-Feb-2013
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Looking at every aspect of the city, from its waterways, streets and architecture to its food, politics and people, the author captures its magnificence and beauty, and recalls his own memories of the place he called home for many winters, as he remembers friends, lovers and enemies he has encountered.
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Juice
By Jay McInerney
Hardback
Published 10-May-2012
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Acclaimed novelist and wine connoisseur Jay McInerney returns to the grapevine in this captivating new book, perfect for buffs and beginners alike
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City-pick St Petersburg
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Published 12-Sep-2012
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From Helen Dunmore, J.M Coetzee and Malcolm Bradbury to Joseph Brodsky, Alexander Pushkin and Fyodor Dostoyevsky - over sixty writers on St Petersburg, past and present.
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Walking Home
By Simon Armitage
Paperback
Published 04-Apr-2013
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In summer 2010 the author decided to walk the Pennine Way. The challenging 256-mile route is usually approached from south to north, from Edale in the Peak District to Kirk Yetholm, the other side of the Scottish border. He resolved to tackle it other way round: through beautiful and bleak terrain, across lonely fells and into the howling wind.
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