Non-Fiction

Synopsis Longlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize. From the author of The Last Mughal and In Xanadu, comes a mesmerising book that explores how ...

Synopsis Few things are as exciting as the idea of travelling somewhere else. But the reality of travel seldom matches our daydreams. The tragi-com...

Synopsis In 1995 Bill Bryson got into his car and took a weeks-long farewell motoring trip about England before moving his family back to the Unite...

Synopsis On 15 February 2008, Mark Beaumont pedalled through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. 194 days and 17 hours previously, he had set off from Pa...

Synopsis 'So I began thinking again of those two white blanks on the map, of penguins and humming birds, of the pampas and of gauchos, in short, of...

Synopsis Scotland's best-loved comedian heads off on the most famous highway in the world for an unforgettable journey through America. Having alwa...

Synopsis Along our shores, towering cliffs from the age of the dinosaurs rise beside wide estuaries teeming with wildlife, while Victorian ports sh...

Synopsis After revealing his incredible achievements in the bestselling Cold, Sir Ranulph Fiennes reveals what it's like to live - and survive - in...

Synopsis This work embraces half a lifetime of travelling around the world by train: steaming down the Khyber Pass on the train's front buffers; an...

Synopsis The No' 1 Sunday Times Bestseller. From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and adven...

Synopsis Rising in the mountains of the Tibetan border, the Yangtze River, the symbolic heart of China pierces 3,900 miles of rugged country before...

Synopsis Subtitled : A Journey with a Pilot. Sunday Times Bestseller. Book of the Week on Radio 4. A 2015 Book of the Year - The Economist, The New...