Great Britain category: 1218 books
An Angle on the World
Dispatches and Diversions from the New Yorker and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
An “artful and compassionate” collection of personal essays, travel writing, dispatches, and book reviews from the author of Laughing in the Hills (Time).
An Angle on the World is a brilliant tribute to Bill Barich’s extraordinary range as a writer. Gathering together more than thirty...
A London Country Diary
Mundane Happenings from the Secret Streets of the Capital
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
For fifteen years, Tim Bradford has meandered round the quiet streets of his North London home, seeking out the ordinary and the extraordinary, the sublime and the ridiculous. A London Country Diary documents his wanderings – he attempts to rescue a deer in Clissold Park, talks to a magical old...
by Jenn Ashworth, Benjamin Webster
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Original tales by remarkable writers
Hometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction and some are narrative non-fiction - they are all powerful, fascinating and moving, and aim...
Adventures on the High Teas
In Search of Middle England
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
Everyone talks about 'Middle England'. Sometimes they mean something bad, like a lynch mob of Daily Mail readers, and sometimes they mean something good, like a pint of ale in a sleepy Cotswold village in summer twilight. But just where and what is Middle England? Stuart Maconie didn't know either,...
by Maria Whatton, Stewart Lee
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Original tales by remarkable writers
Hometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction and some are narrative non-fiction - they are all powerful, fascinating and moving, and aim...
To The Hebrides
Samuel Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands and James Boswell's Journal of a Tour
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Samuel Johnson and James Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring through the Lowlands and Highlands of Scotland as far west as the islands of Skye, Raasay, Coll, Mull, Inchkenneth and Iona. Both kept detailed notes of their impressions, and later published separate accounts of their journey. These...
The Disinherited
A Story of Family, Love, and Betrayal
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
In the small hours of the morning of June 3, 1914, a woman and her husband were found dead in a sparsely furnished apartment in Paris. Only when the identity of the couple was revealed in the English press a fortnight later did the full story emerge. The man, Henry Sackville-West, had shot himself...
Motorcycle Road Trips (Vol. 18) Isle of Man TT Races
The Greatest Road Racing On Earth
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
These nine published magazine articles from the Backroad Bob's Motorcycle Adventures - GPs, MotoGPs, England, Ireland, & The Isle Of Man CD are about the greatest motorcycle racing event on the planet - the two-week long festival of speed known as the Isle of Man TT Races.
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by Geoffrey Fletcher, Dan Cruickshank
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Originally published in 1962 and made in 1967 into an acclaimed documentary film starring James Mason, this book has been a must-have for anyone with an interest in London ever since Geoffrey Fletcher's offbeat portrayal of London does not focus on the big landmarks, but rather "the tawdry, extravagant...
The Brighton Road
The Classic Highway to the South
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
A self illustrated travel guide at the turn of the 20th century of one of England’s most famous and well traveled roads, it’s conveyances and sights and scenes. Discover the work it took to create an early travel guide, the documentation, the suppressed opinions and the well told tales of travel.
by Eloise Millar, Sam Jordison
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
A fascinating guide to the best literary landmarks in London that takes the reader into publishing houses and along paths of inspiration, revealing the stories behind the stories. * One of the world’s greatest literary cities, London has streets full of stories and buildings steeped in history....
by Neil R. Storey
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
The Little Book of Norfolk is a repository of intriguing, fascinating, obscure, strange, and entertaining facts and trivia about one of England's most colorful counties. It is an essential to the born and bred Norfolk folk, or anyone who knows and loves the county. Armed with this fascinating tome...
by Andrew Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Scotland’s story is chronicled by one of the country’s best historians. Andrew Fisher begins with Scotland’s first people and their culture and ends with the setting up of the first Scottish parliament since 1707. Before the arrival of the Vikings in 900, Scotland was a...
by Jan Morris
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Through an exploration of her country home in Wales, acclaimed travel writer Jan Morris discovers the heart of her fascinating country and what it means to be Welsh. Trefan Morys, Morris's home between the sea and mountains of the remote northwest corner of Wales, is the 18th-century stable block...