- Location(s): Winchester
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Early 1930s
It is 1932, and the’ losses of the First World War are still keenly felt. Violet Speedwell, mourning for both her fianc’ and her brother and regarded by society as a’ surplus woman’ unlikely to marry, resolves to escape...
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Travelogue, Autobiography/Memoirs, Coming of Age
- Era(s): 1930s
In 1933, aged eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set out on his ‘great trudge’, a year-long journey by foot from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul. Three decades later he wrote A Time of Gifts, the sparklingly original account of...
- Location(s): Williamsburg
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th century
This is a New York classic about a young girl growing up in Brooklyn, evocative of this area of New York (Williamsburg) and describes the experience of people immigrating into the city. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a...
A Trip of One’s Own: Hope, heartbreak and why travelling solo could change your life
- Location(s): World
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
If Joan Didion was right, and we do tell ourselves stories in order to live, then a travel story is the best story of them all. And I had form for escaping in stories… Kate Wills wasn’t expecting to...
- Location(s): Dordogne
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
For all those who imagine escaping to a château and living the dream . . . to find that even dreams can have their complications. Steph, Jo and Meredith have been friends since school. Their lives have all taken...
- Location(s): Kinlochleven, Scottish Highlands
- Genre(s): Cli-fi, Thriller
- Era(s): 2023 and 2051
A TOMB OF ICE A young meteorologist checking a mountain top weather station in Kinlochleven discovers the body of a missing man entombed in ice. A DYING DETECTIVE Cameron Brodie, a Glasgow detective, sets out on a hazardous journey...
- Location(s): Bangkok
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
Set against a beautifully observed Thailand of the 1950s, this is the story of a young Englishman s infatuation with a dance-hall hostess named Vilai, who all Bangkok knows as The White Leopard. No ordinary prostitute, Vilai is one...
- Location(s): Paris, Vienna
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1827-1838
Virtuoso pianist Isabette Grüber captivates audiences in the salons and concert halls of early nineteenth-century Vienna. Yet in a profession dominated by men, Isabette longs to compose and play her own music—a secret she keeps from both her lascivious...
- Location(s): Edinburgh
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
“I love this city, and always shall. I write about it. I dream about it. I walk its streets and see something new each day – traces of faded lettering on the stone, still legible, but just; some facade...
Abandoned Churches: Unclaimed Places of Worship
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Photography
- Era(s): 2012 - 2019
Between 2012 and 2019 Francis Meslet photographed several hundred places of worship across Europe. Over time, these places have became enveloped in silence, the only thing heard there now an occasional gust of wind whistling though broken stained glass,...
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