Blogs in December 2024

Airplane Mode 3rd December 2024

Truly unique and illuminating, Airplane Mode asks: What does it mean to be a joyous traveller when we live in the ruins of colonialism? The conditions of travel have long been dictated by the colours of passports and the...

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So You Think You Know Liverpool: 101 questions about the city, but do you know the answers? 6th November 2024

Liverpool has always been an impressive city filled with life and culture, and teeming with hidden historical gems dotted around the place. Whether you’re born in Liverpool, have family ties here or are a regular visitor to this fine...

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Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century 14th October 2024

From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer’s tale of a naïf getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city. Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as a human being and as a journalist. He...

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The Japan Lights 12th October 2024

In 2017, holed up in a hotel room, feverish, despondent and aimless, Iain Maloney chances upon an article about Richard Henry Brunton, a Victorian civil engineer unknown in his Scottish homeland but considered ‘The Father of Japanese Lighthouses’ in...

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Place: South African Literary Journeys 10th October 2024

In this travelogue, Justin Fox goes on a one-of-a-kind journey around South Africa. Marrying his love for travel and writing, he sets off to explore the places of his favourite books. From the mountainous eastern Karoo of Olive Schreiner...

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