An all-in-one history and guide book with a wealth of images helping to illustrate the pleasant and captivating Bloomsbury square mile.

Third in the Blue Guide new Literary Companion series, an anthology of excerpts from prose and poetry written in or about London, prefaced by brief biographical and contextual notes.

An anthology of 17th and 18th century travel writing that inspired the hugely popular Aubrey/Maturin series, collected and introduced by Patrick O'Brian, beautifully repackaged to mark the centenary of his birth.

Join the author in his latest tour as he describes, in their words, what earlier writers discovered as they travelled through the Welsh Marches, even before the word 'tourism' was first used.

The definitive biography of one of Antarctic exploration's little known heroes

In 2010, bestselling author Kathleen Winter took a journey across the legendary Northwest Passage. From Greenland to Baffin Island and all along this arctic passage, Winter witnesses the new mathematics of the melting North - where polar bears mate with grizzlies, creating a new hybrid species;

Collector's item, landmark in the history of the tour guide, snapshot of Britain in the 1860s - Bradshaw's Handbook deserves a place on the bookshelf of any traveller, railway enthusiast, historian or anglophile.

Michael Palin, the No.1 bestselling author, explores an exotic country that is now a global superpower.