Tim Cahill learns many valuable life lessons along the way in a remarkable collection of hilarious journeys, such as: how to drink with the Aussies (trying to match them beer for beer is not a...

Simon Majumdar is a man on a mission, and he might just be hungry enough to accomplish it. Setting out in search of the ultimate meal, he travels to every corner of the globe - from China to...

Gerald Durrell revisits his family’s five-year sojourn on the Greek island of Corfu in this sequel to 'My Family and Other Animals'.

Already an avid naturalist at the age of ten,...

Welcome to The City, the fascinating and historic Square Mile at the heart of central London. In the company of Tim Pigott-Smith, you’ll visit world-renowned sites, walk alongside famous figures...

Driving 15,000 miles from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in a record-breaking twenty-three and a half days, Tim Cahill embarks on his fastest, funniest trip yet.

Michael Palin reads his own account of an epic journey across the Himalaya. The greatest mountain range on earth, it includes the Khyber Pass and the Silk Road, the mighty peaks of Everest and K2,...

Welcome to Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the heart of chic Parisian living. These gorgeous streets have long inspired the likes of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Picasso and Oscar Wilde.

‘A Short History of Nearly Everything’ is Bill Bryson’s quest to understand everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. He takes subjects that normally bore...

All Annie Hawes knows of distant Calabria, way down in the toe of the boot of Italy and a thousand miles to the south of her hillside home in Liguria, is that it’s a wild, unruly place,...

Macy, an endearing and vivacious golden retriever, and her master, bestselling vet Bruce Fogle, journey into the very heart of Europe in search of the Fogle ancestors.

Welcome to the grandest part of London, where you can enjoy the sights and tastes of the West End and discover some of its hidden historical gems. In the company of Rupert Holliday Evans you can...

In a world which assaults us with facts and figures, some more precious things are in short supply. Enlightenment, for example. Who better to go looking for it than that most intrepid of...

Alistair Cooke was the greatest of all twentieth century reporters of life in America to the rest of the world. This book presents the cream of his writings on the events that shaped modern...

Negotiate your way with Christian Rodska to the intellectual heartbeat of Paris, the Latin Quarter - so called as the students and professors debated here in Latin.

You’ve no doubt...

After ten years in England, expatriate American Bill Bryson was gripped by an urge to return to the land of his youth. Borrowing his mother’s old Chevrolet, Bryson travelled 13,978 miles through...