In 1969, John McPhee moved his family from New Jersey across the Atlantic to live in the land of his forefathers, the island of Colonsay seventeen square miles of dew and damp twenty-five miles off the coast of Scotland....

Cromarty, The Black Isle, 1831. As seagulls shriek and rise on the coastal winds, a circulating library in the bustling port town of Cromarty is meeting for the first time. Ostensibly united by a love of books, the demands...

East Timor hit the world’s newspaper headlines in August 1999 after its bloody, brave vote for independence from Indonesia – one of the great expressions of a people’s democratic spirit and its oppression. Before that – as a Portuguese...

The Crossing forms second part of Cormac McCarthy’s critically acclaimed Border Trilogy, that began with All the Pretty Horses and concludes with The Cities of the Plain. Set on the south-western ranches in the years before the Second World...

Senator Diana Holloway, 56, a three-term US Senator, spends twelve days and five ferry crossings on Robben Island. The Xhosa political prisoner turned scholar she came to interview asks the only question her staff never put on a card....

After centuries of prominence as a world power, Armenia has withstood every attempt during the 20th century to destroy it. With a name redolent both of dim antiquity and of a modern world and its tensions, the Armenians founded...

No. 1 in the Dr Ruth Galloway series WINNER OF THE 2016 CWA DAGGER IN THE LIBRARY. A child’s bones are discovered on the windswept Norfolk marshes. Believing them to be ancient, the police call in Dr Ruth Galloway,...

Journalist Samar Yazbek was forced into exile by Assad’s regime. When the uprising in Syria turned to bloodshed, she was determined to take action and secretly returned several times. The Crossing is her rare, powerful and courageous testament to...

Winner – Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year 2019. ‘Moving and thought-provoking’ Observer ‘An extraordinary travelogue, strange and brilliant’ i ‘A beguiling portrait of one young man’s search into the hidden corners of Europe’ Sunday Times In 2013...