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  Spanish gardens

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  For over a decade, Monty Don has travelled the world, using gardens and green spaces to get under the skin of our most beloved cities and countries. Many of his destinations were well-known to him....

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  A bird in winter

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  Bird is a woman on the run. One minute, she’s in a meeting in her office in Birmingham – the next, she’s walking out on her job, her home, her life. It’s a day she thought m...

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  Patria

  £25.00

  ‘Lost Countries of South America’ is an adventurous, ambitious and dazzlingly original study of South America’s past that bridges travel writing, history and rich literary narrati...

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  Hildasay to home

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  Sunday Times bestselling Chris Lewis meets the love of his life and starts the real adventure of a lifetime as he builds a family and finishes his epic walk along the whole coastline of the ...

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  The Place of Tides

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  One afternoon many years ago, James Rebanks met an old lady on a remote Norwegian island. She lived and worked alone on a tiny rocky outcrop, caring for wild Eider ducks and gathering their down. H...

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  A thousand feasts

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  THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

  From award-winning writer Nigel Slater, comes a new and exquisitely written collection of notes, memoir, stories and small mom...

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  Sailing alone

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  Sailing on a boat by yourself out at sea and out of sight of land can be exhilarating or terrifying, compelling or tedious – sometimes it can be all of these things just in one morning. It is...

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  Mountains of fire

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  We are made of the same stuff as the breath and cinders of volcanoes. No matter where we live on the planet, these fiery mountains have long shaped the path of humanity. World-famous volcanologist ...

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  The cove

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  For over five decades Beth Lynch has been drawn back, over and again, to a rocky spot on the North Cornwall coast. Her earliest memories of the cove are bound up with idyllic family holidays; as sh...

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  Without ever reaching the summit

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  Paolo Cognetti marked his 40th birthday with a journey he had always wanted to make: to Dolpo, a remote Himalayan region where Nepal meets Tibet. He took with him two friends, a notebook, mules and...

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  World travel

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  Anthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, ...

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  The granite kingdom

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  Few regions of Britain are as holidayed in, as well-loved or as mythologised as Cornwall. From the woodlands of the Tamar Valley to the remote peninsula of Penwith – via the wilderness of Bod...

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  Great-uncle Harry

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  From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, Harry, who died in tragic circumstances, he was determined to find out more about him. The quest th...

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  Abroad in Japan

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  When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he’d made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was abo...

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  Wayward

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  In 1968, Vashti Bunyan gave up everything and everybody she knew in London to take to the road with a horse, wagon, dog, guitar and her then partner. They made the long journey up to the Outer Hebr...

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  All aboard!

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  From best-selling railway expert, Julian Holland, explore Britain’s historical railways in All Aboard.

  The history of Britain’s railways is a long and fascinating one,...

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  Treasures of Cornwall

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  A beguiling anthology of poetry and prose for everyone who loves Cornwall.

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  The yellow kitchen

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  Expectation meets Julie and Julia, ‘The Yellow Kitchen’ is an exploration of food, belonging, and friendship. London E17, 2019. A yellow kitchen stands as a metaphor for the lifelong fr...

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  Why we swim

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  Take a dive into the deep with writer and swimmer Bonnie Tsui and discover what it is about water that seduces us, heals us and brings us together. Our evolutionary ancestors swam for survival. Now...

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  Dark, Salt, Clear

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  There is the Cornwall Lamorna Ash knew as a child – the idyllic, folklore-rich place her mother is from and where she spent her summer holidays. Then there is the Cornwall she discovers when,...

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  Underland: A Deep Time Journey

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  In ‘Underland’, Robert Macfarlane takes us on a journey into the worlds beneath our feet. From the ice-blue depths of Greenland’s glaciers, to the underground networks by which tr...

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  The Natural Navigator: 10th Anniversary Edition

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  Starting with a simple question – ‘Which way am I looking?’ – Tristan Gooley blends natural science, myth, folklore and the history of travel to introduce you to the forgott...

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  Book Of Tides

  £25.00

  Inspired by his own witnessing of the power of the sea through travelling around Britain’s coastline in a panel van with his young family, William Thomson tells the story of the cycles of the...

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  The Penguin Lessons

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  Tom Michell is in his roaring 20s: single, free-spirited and seeking adventure. He has a plane ticket to South America, a teaching position in a prestigious Argentinian boarding school and endless ...

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  Walking Away

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  Not content with walking the Pennine Way as a modern day troubadour, an experience recounted in his bestseller and prize-wining ‘Walking Home’, Simon Armitage has followed up that journ...

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  The Alchemist

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  A global phenomenon, The Alchemist has been read and loved by over 62 million readers, topping bestseller lists in 74 countries worldwide. Now this magical fable is beautifully repackaged in an edi...

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  Pilgrimage

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  In this gripping story, Paulo Coelho is on a quest for the ultimate in self-knowledge, wisdom and spiritual mastery.

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  Green Hills of Africa

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  This title is Ernest Hemingway’s lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933. It is an examination ...

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