The range of Blackburn's books testifies to her profound curiosity about the world. This account of her journey (imaginative as well as physical) among the little-known South African people ... 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
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
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
The explorer and travel writer's first photographic book draws on his travels around the world, from war zones to traditional ways of rural life, frontier existences and modern technology. H... read more
Islands of banishment approached through three lives: New Caledonia in the South Pacific, where Louise Michel, grandmother of French anarchy and a leader in theParis Commune, was sent for s... read more