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  • Where to Go When Great Britain and Ireland

    by DK ...
    When’s the best time to visit London? When are the Scottish islands at their most beautiful? When do the crowds leave Snowdonia? Turn the pages of this beautiful book and you’ll find the answers to all these questions – and more.With chapters covering every month of the year, Where to Go When highlights the perfect time to visit 100 of Great Britain and Ireland’s favourite places – from the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Time Song

    Journeys in Search of a Submerged Land

    Julia Blackburn has always collected things that hold stories about the past, especially the very distant past: mammoth bones, little shells that happen to be two million years old, a flint shaped as a weapon long ago. Shortly after her husband’s death, Blackburn became fascinated with Doggerland, the stretch of land that once connected Great Britain to Continental Europe but is now subsumed by ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Microadventures: Local Discoveries for Great Escapes

    ‘Enthusiastic, pleasingly madcap’ GeographicalAdventure – something that’s new and exhilarating, outside your comfort zone. Adventures change you and how you see the world, and all you need is an open mind, bags of enthusiasm and boundless curiosity.Recommended for viewing on a colour tablet.So what’s a microadventure? It’s close to home, cheap, simple, short and 100% guaranteed to refresh your ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Writer's House in Wales

    by Jan Morris ...
    Series series Directions
    Through an exploration of her country home in Wales, acclaimed travel writer Jan Morris discovers the heart of her fascinating country and what it means to be Welsh. Trefan Morys, Morris's home between the sea and mountains of the remote northwest corner of Wales, is the 18th-century stable block of her former family house nearby. Surrounding it are the fields and outbuildings, the mud, sheep, and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Pocket Rough Guide London (Travel Guide eBook)

    by Rough Guides ...
    Series series Rough Guides Pocket
    Discover this spectacular destination with the most incisive and entertaining guidebook on the market. Whether you plan to sample fine wines in Hawke's Bay, canoe along the Whanganui River or hike across the Franz Josef glacier, The Rough Guide to New Zealand will show you the ideal places to sleep, eat, drink, shop and visit along the way.Independent, trusted reviews writtenwith Rough Guides' ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Rick Steves Snapshot Edinburgh

    by Rick Steves ...
    With Rick Steves, Edinburgh is yours to discover! This slim guide excerpted from Rick Steves Scotland includes:Rick's firsthand, up-to-date advice on Edinburgh's best sights, restaurants, hotels, and more, plus tips to beat the crowds, skip the lines, and avoid tourist trapsTop sights and local experiences: Visit ancient Edinburgh Castle and stroll the Royal Mile, uncover Scottish history at the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Moon London Walks

    Series series Travel Guide
    Whether you're shopping on the high street, strolling lively street markets, or admiring renowned modern art, experience London like a local: on foot!Walk through the city's coolest neighborhoods like Shoreditch, Chelsea, Marylebone, and more, with color-coded stops and turn-by-turn directionsFind your scene with top ten lists of the best restaurants, nightlife, markets, museums, and moreGet to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Railway Day Trips: 160 classic train journeys around Britain

    Fully updated essential guide to exploring Britain by train, Railway Day Trips is ideal for anyone planning or looking for inspiration for a rail journey. From bestselling railway author Julian Holland.This pocket companion is perfect for both casual and seasoned rail travellers. Plan adventures, follow the changing landscape through the train window and discover fascinating destinations.Each ... Read more

    $8.99 USD $6.99 USD

  • Coasting

    A Private Voyage

    Series series Vintage Departures
    From the national bestselling, National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Bad Land comes “a lively, intensely personal recounting of a voyage into a gifted writer's country and self” (The New York Times Book Review).Put Jonathan Raban on a boat and the results will be fascinating, and never more so than when he’s sailing around the serpentine, 2,000-mile coast of his native England. In ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Notes from a Small Island

    by Bill Bryson ...
    Before New York Times bestselling author Bill Bryson wrote The Road to Little Dribbling, he took this delightfully irreverent jaunt around the unparalleled floating nation of Great Britain, which has produced zebra crossings, Shakespeare, Twiggie Winkie’s Farm, and places with names like Farleigh Wallop and Titsey. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Road to Little Dribbling

    Adventures of an American in Britain

    by Bill Bryson ...
    A loving and hilarious—if occasionally spiky—valentine to Bill Bryson’s adopted country, Great Britain. Prepare for total joy and multiple episodes of unseemly laughter.Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to discover and celebrate that green and pleasant land. The result was Notes from a Small Island, a true classic and one of the bestselling travel books ever written. Now ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Clanlands

    Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWith a foreword by Diana Gabaldon.Two men. One country. And a lot of whisky.As stars of Outlander, Sam and Graham eat, sleep and breathe the Highlands on this epic road trip around their homeland. They discover that the real thing is even greater than fiction.Clanlands is the story of their journey. Armed with their trusty campervan and a sturdy friendship, these... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Everything Is Going to Be Great

    An Underfunded and Overexposed European Grand Tour

    “Shukert's sharp comic turns careen smack into the middle of our hearts."— Los Angeles TimesEverything Is Going to Be Great, is performer, playwright, comedian, and author Rachel Shukert’s hilarious memoir of traveling through Europe in her twenties. She chronicles her youthful navigation through the haphazard fun and debauchery of new freedoms, and the growing pains that ultimately accompany ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Almost Nearly Perfect People

    Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia

    by Michael Booth ...
    **The Christian Science Monitor's #1 Best Book of the YearA witty, informative, and popular travelogue about the Scandinavian countries and how they may not be as happy or as perfect as we assume, “The Almost Nearly Perfect People offers up the ideal mixture of intriguing and revealing facts” (Laura Miller, Salon).Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • London

    A Biography

    by Peter Ackroyd ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKHere are two thousand years of London’s history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and drink and countless pleasures. Blackfriar’s and Charing Cross, Paddington and Bedlam. Westminster Abbey and St. Martin in the Fields. Cockneys and vagrants. Immigrants, peasants, and punks. The Plague, the Great Fire, the Blitz. London at all ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Watching the English

    The Hidden Rules of English Behavior Revised and Updated

    by Kate Fox ...
    Updated, with new research and over 100 revisionsTen years later, they're still talking about the weather! Kate Fox, the social anthropologist who put the quirks and hidden conditions of the English under a microscope, is back with more biting insights about the nature of Englishness. This updated and revised edition of Watching the English - which over the last decade has become the unofficial ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Island

    A heart-stopping psychological thriller that will keep you hooked

    by Mary Grand ...
    The Island - where everyone knows everyone, and secrets are impossible to keep...‘Be careful, you don’t know them as well as you think. Remember - anyone can kill.’Juliet has returned to the Isle of Wight from years abroad to visit her sick father and to be reunited with her three sisters – Cassie, a professional musician who seems to have lost her way in life, Mira, who is profoundly deaf, is ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Clash of Lions

    Series Book 2 - The Hundred Years' War
    A war on two fronts. A deadly threat from within. The new gripping medieval historical thriller from expert historians and authors A.J. Mackenzie1346: Sent back to England in the wake of the tremendous victory at Crécy, Simon Merrivale is at once caught up in a new emergency as a powerful Scottish army sweeps into northern England.Joining up with the Archbishop of York, Lord Percy and their army ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shadow of the Eagle

    'A terrific read' Conn Iggulden

    by Damion Hunter ...
    Series Book 1 - The Borderlands
    Will Britain take him in... or mark him as its enemy?'A brilliantly realised world of Imperial ambition and native resistance' Simon Scarrow'Wonderful, distinct characters' Conn IgguldenFaustus Valerianus is the son of a Roman father and a British mother, a captive sold among the spoils after Claudius’s invasion.Now both parents have died within a month of each other, and so he sells the family ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The History of London

    by Walter Besant ...
    Series Book 8 - AUK Revisited
    This fascinating biography of one of the world's most famous cities was originally published in the early 20th Century. It chronicles the life of London from its days as an early settlement through to more modern times. Including over 60 images, photographs, engravings and drawings, this excellent book is a must-have for those who live in the city, have visited - or plan to visit - at some point, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Divided by a Common Language

    A Guide to British and American English

    This guide to the language differences between the United States and United Kingdom is “a fascinating collection full of all kinds of surprises” (Minneapolis Star Tribune).Taxi rank . . . toad in the hole . . . dustman . . . fancy dress . . . American visitors to London (or viewers of British TV shows) might be confused by these terms. But most Britons would be equally puzzled by words like ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago

    The Complete Cultural Handbook

    The road across northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela in the northwest was one of the three major Christian pilgrimage routes during the Middle Ages, leading pilgrims to the resting place of the Apostle St. James. Today, the system of trails and roads that made up the old pilgrimage route is the most popular long-distance trail in Europe, winding from the heights of the Pyrenees to the gently ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Golden Girls' Getaway

    The perfect feel-good, funny read from USA Today bestseller Judy Leigh

    by Judy Leigh ...
    The most uplifting book you’ll read this year!'Judy’s done it again. Every woman over a certain age should read this wonderful book.' Jennifer BohnetIt has been a long and lonely year for neighbours Vivienne, Mary and Gwen. All ladies of a ‘certain age’, their lockdown experience has left them feeling isolated and alone. They are in desperate need of a change.Things start to look up however, when ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Skye

    The Island and Its Legends

    An oral history by “Scotland’s forgotten folklorist” whose tale inspired the Neil Gaiman novella The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains (The Spooky Isles).This is a fabulous treasury of legend and wonder—tales of monsters who dwell in lakes; of small people who trap humans in earthen mounds where time stands still; of dark, shapeshifting spirits whose cloak of human form is betrayed by the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus