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Down and Out in Kathmandu

Down and Out in Kathmandu
  • Author(s): Jennifer S Alderson
  • Location(s): Nepal
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Overworked computer programmer Zelda Richardson is teetering on the edge of burnout. Inspired by a girlfriend’s trip around the world, she leaves her life in Seattle, Washington, buys a backpack and flies to Kathmandu as a volunteer English teacher...

Ever Rest

Ever Rest
  • Author(s): Roz Morris
  • Location(s): Nepal, London, Mount Everest, Shropshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s and 2014

Twenty years ago, Hugo and Ash were on top of the world. As the acclaimed rock band Ashbirds they were poised for superstardom. Then Ash went missing, lost in a mountaineering accident, and the lives of Hugo and everyone...

For Tibet With Love

For Tibet With Love
  • Author(s): Isabel Losada
  • Location(s): London, Nepal, Tibet
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

‘Sometimes you just have to do something, don’t you? Sometimes an injustice comes along and you think ‘No, this cannot be’, and rather than just turn off the TV, you know it’s time to act’ So begins Isabel Losada’s...

Just Another Mountain

Just Another Mountain
  • Author(s): Sarah Jane Douglas
  • Location(s): Scottish Highlands, Nepal, Scotland
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 2000s/2010s

‘This uplifting memoir is testament that in life there are times when there is nothing for it but to scale that mountain’ – The Herald Best Summer Reads 2019 In 1997, at the age of 24, Sarah lost her...

Little Princes

Little Princes
  • Author(s): Conor Grennan
  • Location(s): Nepal
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Travelogue
  • Era(s): 2000s

Grennan gives up his job and sets off to travel the globe. He settles down to work in the Little Princes Home in Nepal. It is not what it seems and is a centre for child trafficking. And he...

Mountains of the Mind

Mountains of the Mind
  • Author(s): Robert Macfarlane
  • Location(s): China, Europe, Nepal
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

Why do so many feel compelled to risk their lives climbing mountains? During the climbing season, one person a day dies in the Alps, and more people die climbing in this season in Scotland than they do on the...

The Himalayan Summer

The Himalayan Summer
  • Author(s): Louise Brown
  • Location(s): Darjeeling, Nepal
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s

Ellie Jeffreys arrives in Darjeeling with her British husband, en route to Kathmandu. They have ten-month-old, golden-haired twins, and despite appearing to be a happy family, Ellie’s relationship with the overbearing, philandering Francis is disintegrating. At a cocktail party,...

The Lie

The Lie
  • Author(s): C L Taylor
  • Location(s): Nepal
  • Genre(s): Thriller

I know your name’s not really Jane Hughes . . . Jane Hughes has a loving partner, a job in an animal sanctuary and a tiny cottage in rural Wales. She’s happier than she’s ever been but her life...

The Snow Leopard

The Snow Leopard
  • Author(s): Peter Matthiessen
  • Location(s): Nepal, The Himalayas
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 1970s

One September, the writer and explorer Peter Matthiessen set out with field biologist George Schaller to journey 250 miles through the Himalayas to the Crystal Mountain on the Tibetan plateau. They wanted to study the wild blue sheep, the...

To a Mountain in Tibet

To a Mountain in Tibet
  • Author(s): Colin Thubron
  • Location(s): Nepal, The Himalayas, Tibet
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

This is about the trip from Nepal into Tibet – Thurbon has his usual eye for the wonderful detail and insight. His tales of seekers, refugees and mystics richly populate Tibetan history and Buddhist belief.

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