Walsh is an international correspondent for the New York Times of long standing who was bureau chief in Pakistan for a decade, before his encounter with an intelligence agent and subsequent ... read more
The famous architect and his journalist son share a passion for sailing - the Thames, the Seine, the Pacific, the Mediterranean, far and wide to Athens, San Francisco, Osaka and other sites ... read more
This is a journey as imaginative and cerebral as it is physical: Lees, now an eminent neurologist, used to frequent the Liverpool docks as a child, with his father, and watch the ships unloa... read more
A clever and curious mind is behind this engaging work. Fidler, who first visited Prague during the Velvet Revolution, moves from the medieval origins to the uncertainties of the present day... read more
A remarkable odyssey around the edges of that vast country - through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finl... read more
Demick has previously won the Samuel Johnson prize and was short-listed for a Pulitzer. Her account of the modern Tibetan experience is unequalled. The town she writes about is Ngaba, in eas... read more
A dive through other dives: architecture as the key to Soho's history, with its waves of immigrants - Huguenots, East European Jews, Chinese. Has an elegiac quality in the face of the dispir... read more
Boreal forests in Europa, Asia and North America account for a third of the world's trees and are essential for life on this planet. Less than 12% is protected... Large format, with stunning... read more