Search Results for ‘United Kingdom’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 48 matches found

Left for Dead - The Untold Story of the Tragic 1979 Fastnet Race

This is the true story of Nick Ward’s harrowing time in the tragic Fastnet Race of 1979. The yachting race runs from the Isle of Wight, around Lands End and north-west to Ireland most south-westerly...

The Accidental Angler

Meet Charles Rangeley-Wilson. He’s one of Britain’s best-kept secrets – angler, conservationist, traveller. He’s also one of our finest fishing writers. Now join him on the trip of a lifetime, on a...

Days from a Different World

In this new volume of memoirs, John Simpson turns his sights on his own childhood, through which he paints a vivid picture of Britain in the 1940s and 50s.
'I have already touched on my childhood in...

Pies and Prejudice - In Search of the North

“Pie and Prejudice” is a charming, wise and witty travel book that takes place on our very own shores. A northerner in exile, stateless and confused and hearing rumours of Harvey Nichols in Leeds and...

German Invasion Plans For the British Isles (1940)

“German Invasion Plans for the British Isles” is the book to which Hitler’s generals turned when they planned Operation Sea Lion in 1940. Using one of the only surviving copies found by the Allied forces...

Maps in Tudor England

The map as we understand it today - a plan, drawn accurately to a defined scale, constructed by triangulation, and showing features by a range of conventional signs - was effectively an invention of...

Mrs P's Journey

This is the story of Phyllis Pearsall, the woman who mapped London's A-Z and founded the Geographer's Map Company. Mapmaking was traditionally a man's world and she took it by storm by creating a map...

The Bus We Loved

In this affectionate history, Travis Elborough tells the story of the Routemaster's invention, rise and decline, of the people who worked on it, and of the enthusiasts who were mad about it. Slowly...

Tunnel Visions

Christopher Ross, philosopher and traveller, decides to cease his journeyings and literally go underground. Seeking an antidote to incurable restlessness he chose to work for a year as a Station Assistant...

The Isle of Man: A Pictorial History

An insight into the history, architecture and personalities of the Isle of Man. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs.

Cross River Traffic

Cross River Traffic tells the history of the London's current bridges (and their predecessors) - why and how they were built as well as incidents that have occurred on them, from ghost stories to terrorist...

Derelict London

“Derelict London” lists 100 of the capital’s most interesting, curious & eye-catching derelict buildings, from the deservedly discarded tower blocks to the scandalously neglected architectural gems...

Hawksmoor

London in the eighteenth century is a city of extremes: squalor and superstition vie with elegance and enlightenment as the capital's brilliant architect Nicholas Dyer is commissioned to build several...

London - The Biography

Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city.
For him it is a living organism, with its own laws...

London's Dead – A guided tour of the capital's dead

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Ed Glinert’s “London’s Dead” unearths some of the capital's most gruesome and intriguing stories; from famous and infamous people to unsung heroes and victims, well-known resting places...

More London Peculiars

Peter Ashley, writer and photographer, returns with a second volume uncovering London’s past and revealing the old ways that make the city the most exciting capital anywhere. The occupations he finds...

The London Compendium

The streets of London resonate with secret stories, from East End lore to Cold War espionage, from tales of riots, rakes, brothers, anarchy and grisly murders, to Rolling Stones gigs, gangland drinking...

The Ultimate London Sticker Book

Create your own picture book of London using these high-quality colour stickers of photographs of London.

White Teeth

White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel on a scrambled, heterogeneous sprawl of mixed-race and immigrant family life in 20th-century gritty London.
It follows the roots and the lives of...

Down and Out in Paris and London

George Orwell’s vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute in London and Paris is a moving tour of the underworld of society.
“You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and...