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,...

This compilation of Mark Tully’s acclaimed reports from India includes his specially recorded observations.

Sir Mark Tully was the BBC’s Foreign Correspondent in India from 1972 to...

A collection of original travel stories told by some of the world's best novelists, including Isabel Allende, Peter Matthiessen, Alexander McCall Smith, Joyce Carol Oates, Téa Obreht and DBC Pierre.

Acclaimed actor and writer Michael Palin reads his own account of his third and most ambitious world adventure.

Following the hugely popular and successful ‘Around the World in 80...

In ‘Pole to Pole', we join Michael Palin on the second of his epic challenges. Travelling from the North Pole to the South Pole, he experiences every extreme the globe has to offer. As he...

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...

When Annie Hawes buys a hillside cottage in Italy for no more than the price of a dodgy second-hand car, a capable young Englishwoman becomes a surprisingly incapable Ligurian signorina In the...

The good life abroad just keeps getting better and better as Chris Stewart, one-time 'Genesis' drummer, turned sheepshearer, turned bestselling writer, returns with a new book on his life in the...

Geoffrey Fletcher's London was not the big landmarks, but rather 'the tawdry, extravagant and eccentric'. He wrote about parts of the city no-one ever had before. This could be an art nouveau pub,...

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...

A companion to the major six-part BBC TV series, written by Michael Wood and read by Sam Dastor.Michael Wood weaves a spellbinding narrative out of the 10,000-year history of India.Home...

The third and most ambitious of Michael Palin’s adventures is a voyage of epic proportions the circumnavigation of the Pacific Rim. He travels for almost a year through the eighteen countries...

After nearly two decades in England, the world’s best–loved travel writer returned to live in the country he had left as a youth. Of course there were things Bryson missed about Blighty, but...

Andrew Eames sets out to travel from London to Baghdad by train, following the route of the old ‘Orient Express’ and an identical journey made by Agatha Christie in 1928.

The...

Aged 17, Chris Stewart retired as the drummer of 'Genesis' and launched a career as a sheep-shearer and travel writer.

He has no regrets about this. Had he become a big-time rock star...