Category Archives: Travel Guides
Grand Hotel Abyss
In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain the workings of the modern world. Among the most prominent members of what became the Frankfurt School were the philosophers Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse. Not only would they
The Book of Dissent: Revolutionary Words from Three Millennia of Rebellion and Resistance
“Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest-rallying others around them and inspiring uprisings in eras yet to come. Their echoes reverberate from Ancient Greece, China and Egypt, via the dissident poets and philosophers of Islam and Judaism, through to the Arab slave
Morvern Callar: (Scottish Classics)
It is off-season in a remote Highland sea port: twenty-one-year-old Morvern Callar, a low-paid employee in the local supermarket, wakes one morning to find her strange boyfriend has committed suicide and is dead on their kitchen floor. Morvern`s laconic reaction is both intriguing and immoral. What she does next is even more appalling…This book is
Swing Hammer Swing!: (Scottish Classics)
From the infamous Glasgow slum, the Gorbals, Tam Clay chronicles a week in his life, in the last days before the demolishers move in. Intersecting friends, old-timers and eccentrics, navigating his pregnant wife, frisky bedfellows and debt collectors, Tam stumbles through a derelict world on an odyssey of self-discovery. Wildly funny, outlandish and insanely ambitious
The White Company
Set during the Hundred Years War, the protagonist of The White Company is a cloister-raised young nobleman who discovers that his father`s will stipulated he travelled for a year before taking his vows. Setting off on his adventures, he finds himself part of the White Company – a group of mercenary archers en route to
The Swimming Pool Library
Young, gay, William Beckwith spends his time, and his trust fund, idly cruising London for erotic encounters. When he saves the life of an elderly man in a public convenience an unlikely job opportunity presents itself – the man, Lord Nantwich, is seeking a biographer. Will agrees to take a look at Nantwich`s diaries. But
Christian The Lion
The story that captured the imagination of the world…In 1969 Harrods department store in London sold a three month old lion cub to two young Australians, John Rendall and Anthony (Ace) Bourke. They called him Christian. For a year Christian lived happily and safely with John and Ace and his human `pride`, initially in the
After Many a Summer
Jo Stoyle is afraid of death. But Stoyle is also a millionaire, and so he pours his riches into scientific research, desperate to find the secret of immortality. This ruthless quest will enmesh everyone around him in a web of greed, seduction, murder and debasement. Written while he was living in California, this is Huxley`s
Wild Abandon: A Journey to the Deserted Places of the Dodecanese`
`There`s something about abandoned places which moves me and captures the imagination.`So says seasoned travel writer Jennifer Barclay as she walks with her dog andher backpack through the deserted spaces of the Dodecanese, islands that wereonce bustling but are now half forgotten and reclaimed by the wild due to a mixof misfortune and the lure
Of Walking in Ice: Munich – Paris: 23 November – 14 December, 1974
In November 1974, when Werner Herzog was told that his mentor Lotte Eisner, the film-maker and critic, was dying in Paris, he set off to walk there from Munich, `in full faith, believing that she would stay alive if I came on foot`. Along the way he recorded what he saw, how he felt, and
Three Stripes South: The 1000km trek that inspired the Love Her Wild women`s adventure movement
Signed by the authorIn 2016, desperate for a drastic change, Bex Band decided to walk the length of Israel with her husband: a 1000km trek including a dangerous crossing through the vast Negev desert. She`d never done anything like it before and the experience changed her life, building back her confidence and self-esteem. Three Stripes
Paradise: (Scottish Classics)
Almost forty and with nothing to show for it, Hannah Luckraft is starting to realise that her lifestyle is not sustainable. Her soul is unwell, her family is wounded, her friends are odd, her body is unreliable and her drinking is out of control. Robert, a dissolute dentist, appears to offer a love she can
Travel Write: Select entries from 20 years of the Bradt travel-writing competition
For over 20 years Bradt Travel Guides has been running an annual travel-writing competition which now attracts hundreds of entrants each year. Thanks to Bradt`s status as the largest remaining independently owned travel publisher in the UK and one of the most respected travel publishing brands in the world, it is uniquely placed to champion
The Blackbirder
Espionage, adventure and a hard-boiled heroine not to be trifled with – this classic noir will have you gripped from start to finish. Julie Guilles is in trouble. She`s fled her home in Occupied France for a seedy neighbourhood in New York and has been laying low – but not low enough. Because now she
The Travel Photographer`s Way: Practical steps to taking unforgettable travel photos
Nori Jemil`s ground-breaking practical photography book considers not just how to get better images, but also why and when to take them. It guides you to becoming a more confident and reflective travel photographer, as well as covering all the technical knowhow needed. Taking a journey around the seven continents, each chapter focuses on the
Eyeball Tacos and Kangaroo Stew: Life-Changing Meals in Far-Flung Places
“Listening to the gentle lapping of the river, I ponder the strange fate that brought me, a Soviet kid from a small Russian town, right here, to this very table in the middle of the Surinamese jungle on this particular night.” From early childhood spend in an akademgorodok (purpose-built academic community) in the USSR, Kaminski
From YOLO to Solo: A 60-something`s Silk Road adventure
At the age of 64, Sandra Reekie was offered the adventure of a lifetime: to spend three months journeying along the Silk Road, the fabled trading route between Asia and Europe. One condition: she would be travelling with a woman she had never met. What could possibly go wrong? You only live once, after all.In
Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London
In Nightwalking Matthew Beaumont recounts an alternative history of London-populated by the poor, the mad, the lost, the vagrant and the noctambulant. He shines a light on the shadowy perambulations of poets, novelists and thinkers: Chaucer and Shakespeare; William Blake and his ecstatic peregrinations and the feverish ramblings of opium addict Thomas De Quincey; and,
Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent
Upsets received views to show how rebellious colonies changed British attitudes to empire Much has been written on the how colonial subjects took up British and European ideas and turned them against empire when making claims to freedom and self-determination. The possibility of reverse influence has been largely overlooked. Insurgent Empire shows how Britain`s enslaved
Beastly Journeys: Unusual Tales of Travel with Animals
David Attenborough, Dion Leonard, Dervla Murphy and Brian Jackman are just four of the authors whose work features in this new anthology from Bradt focusing on true stories about travelling with animals. In Beastly Journeys, there are 46 tales of extraordinary animal travel experiences, from hilarious holidays with pets to journeys on which wild animals
