Lanoo

Finding a major city's ultimate cocktail bar is often quite the challenge. This book takes you on a trip around the world from Hong Kong to New York and Berlin. It shows locations that set themselves apart with their gorgeous design, stunning views, exclusivity or signature cocktail. In short, must-visit bars for any enthusiast. Can't wait? Not to worry. The author has added some of the best cocktail recipe...

Here is the Instagram guide to (re)discovering New York in style, including addresses for eating, drinking, shopping, sightseeing and (street) art. Documenting the daily life and preferred secret spots of an expat in the city, it is a lifestyle guide, a photo album, and a mood board all in one. The Lazy Frenchie is a must-have for millennials and Instagram addicts who love New York. It is a colourful, photo...

For those willing to go to the edge, for those who love to run close to the sky, here are some of the world's most challenging and beautiful running trails and races. Twelve trails are covered in depth, and many more are included. From Norway to South Africa, Hong Kong to Colorado, and Switzerland to Columbia, these profiles are accompanied by travel information, as well as stories from those with experienc...

On 28 June 1914, there were two almost simultaneous shots. In Paris, the twelfth Tour de France was about to start, while in Sarajevo the Austrian crown prince Franz Ferdinand was assassinated. Professional cycle racing came to a halt, but the first cycling heroes continued to race. The Belgian cycling author Patrick Cornillie takes us through the wartime editions of the Tour of Flanders, which were ridden ...

145 days. 17 countries. 1 road trip. 40,000 km traveled. Many people met. Peaks of Europe is not a traditional landscape photography book. It's the result of a 5-month adventure across 17 countries told through the lens of a European travel photographer who took 29 years to finally explore the continent on which in he was born. The book has been designed for a specific purpose: telling the story of a 5-mont...

(Re)discover Art Nouveau at the heart of Brussels. At the end of the 19th century, the anti-academic movement pushed Brussels' architects towards Art Nouveau. Both Victor Horta, in an organic style, and Paul Hankar, in a more geometrical tendency, created an architecture that quickly gained an international reputation. In a little more than a decade, from 1893 on, hundreds of Art Nouveau-fashioned buildings...

Silent Cities of Flanders Fields: WWI Cemeteries of Ypres Salient and West Flanders from the Belgian publishers Lannoo is a set of two books: a Visitor’s Guide which also includes accommodation recommendations, plus a hardback providing more historical background. Both books cover the same 230 cemeteries - the vast majority of them, of course, of the British and Commonwealth forces, but also Belgian, French...

In this guide Sarah Cisinski and Chloe Roose honour the restaurants, bars and tearooms where one simply feels good, where one can enjoy a brief coffee break or sit and relax all day, where the food is hearty and comforting, and where one can admire the architectural details or chatter for hours with the chef. Every address is selected with this in mind: 'you eat well and you eat in style'. Includes intervie...