WD won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Into the Silence. Discursive, erudite and observant, he turns now to the story of Colombia's mightiest river.
NB Publication of this book has been de... read more
Climate, exploration, Arctic peoples, trade, material culture and the present - wonders to be shown, d.v., at the British Museum from late May this year.
AM's last book was 'Night Trains' , in which we could luxuriate in dreams of the Blue Train, the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-lits and lamp-lit dining cars... Now, post-Brexit, the au... read more
Rossmore's photographs of fading historic buildings, taken over a decade from the early 1960s, are now lodged in the Irish Architectural Archive. Here seventy images from the length and brea... read more
In this magnificently madcap adventure, SR pursues rumours of old pianos into all corners of Siberia: Arctic, Altai, Kamchatka, Princess Volkonsky in Irkutsk... She writes well, has a lovely... read more
The author has been travelling in China for 30 years. This is her first book, and it is a compelling portrait of the country's culture and its recent mutations.
The Bulgarian/Scottish writer explores the mountainous fringe of North Macedonia, Albania and Greece along the via Egnatia (which, astonishingly, joined the via Appia to link Rome with Byzan... read more
This is the first publication of Hugh Trevor-Roper's private journal of his visit to the People's Republic of China in 1965, shortly before the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution. It also d... read more