Happily settled in Florida, Sonja believes she’s finally escaped the trap set by unscrupulous drug lords. But when her son Tomas is taken, she’s back to square one … and Iceland. Her lover, Agla, is awaiting sentencing for financial...

Raphael is a dumpsite boy. He spends his days wading through mountains of steaming trash, sifting it, sorting it, breathing it, sleeping next to it. Then one unlucky-lucky day, Raphael’s world turns upside down. A small leather bag falls...

*Shortlisted for the 2013 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize* A novel of philosophy and love, politics and waltzes, history and the here-and-now, Andrés Neuman’s Traveller of the Century is a journey into the soul of Europe, penned by one of the most...

Have you been backpacking with your daughter in India? Been ripped off at the Zimbabwe border – or anywhere? Inadvertently become a hatchery for the African Putse-fly – with only a jar of Vaseline and a steady hand between...

As well as a composer and novelist, Paul Bowles was a fine and prolific travel writer. Of the 40 pieces in this excellent collection, mostly written for American magazines, the majority have never been reprinted. Bowles’ career as a...

In 1960, John Steinbeck set out to rediscover and document his native land: accompanied only by his dog, he travelled all across the United States in a pick-up truck. This Penguin Classics edition of Travels with Charley includes an...

Benjamin Cooper and his sidekick Virgile investigate a friend’s barrels of wine, which have been poisoned. Perfect for lovers of wine and a bit of art history, there are clearly more to come in the series.

Megaselling biographer, internationally renowned psychologist, ex-comedienne and mother of four (three teenage girls and Billy Connolly), the extraordinary Pamela Stephenson now adopts a new guise – historian, sailor, and circumnavigator of the globe. In Treasure Islands, Pamela follows in the intrepid footsteps...

In a farmhouse on the Camel estuary in Cornwall, a 5-year old girl finds her parents brutally slaughtered. Fifteen years later the house is deserted and the killing still remains a mystery. Then the body of a 50-year old...

Amelia Scott is a young woman trying to re-build her life in Southern England following a disastrous relationship. It was going to be an adventure, but when there’s news of a young girl found dead and another goes missing,...