From the home of the indigenous Formosans to a European trading post, from a Japanese colony to the last bastion of the Republic of China. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understan... read more
Kampfner began his career as a journalist reporting from East Berlin. Since then he has quartered the city, searched archives, interviewed widely. He loves this city. His last book - Why the... read more
Books on Cornwall clearly come like buses: this one takes us affectionately from Minehead to Land's End along the coastal path, over a decade. By the author of Diary of an MP's Wife, also a ... read more
The world is as divided about cold water swimming as it is about the pronunciation of 'tomato'... One person's heaven is another's miserable hell; the side that is thought mad by the other h... 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 1930 a (very) young British explorer led a small team to explore the eastern coast of Greenland - an unknown expanse, mysterious even to the Inuits.
Last encountered in his fine book Dostoevsky in Love, this gifted author has an eye for inner conflict. Now he returns to the Christian/Arab complexities of his native Cyprus.
An engaging and idiosyncratic writer uses the machinations of the 1907 Peking-Paris car race as mirror to the geopolitical and technological changes which - not even a decade later - pitched... read more
Returning to her native Bulgaria, the acclaimed writer explores the valley of the Mesta and encounters its inhabitants and their traditions of plant-lore. Her previous books have been outsta... read more
CT, a foreign correspondent, had a house in the Appenines in the area of the 2016 earthquakes. Starting with letters found in her attic, she delves into the life of her house's last permanen... read more
Travelling five thousand miles from the Arctic Circle to the eastern border of Turkey, the author examines the C20th faultline laid down in the Cold War and its legacy.