Bring on the Apocalypse
George MonbiotRRP: £8.99
‘A dazzling command of science and a relentless faith in people… I never miss reading him.’ — Naomi KleinIn these incendiary essays, George Monbiot tears apart the fictions of religious conservativ …
Genre: Travel & Nature
Making Soapies in Kabul
Trudi-Ann TierneyRRP: £12.99
On an impulse, Trudi-Ann Tierney, Sydney producer and former actress, goes to Kabul to manage a bar. She quickly falls into the local TV industry, where she becomes responsible for producing a highly …
Tsunami and the Single Girl
Krissy NicholsonRRP: £9.99
As a free-spirited traveller, Krissy–now almost thirty–needs her life to start taking shape. So how does a wild night on a dance floor in Vietnam land her a sought-after role in Oxfam working in eme …
Don't Tell Mum
Emily MonkRRP: £7.99
Sunday Telegraph Humour Book of the Year Hilarious – Daily MailA hilarious and invaluable insight for gap-year travellers into what to avoid out there.The email home is an essential part of every gap- …
The Seasons
Nick GroomRRP: £25.00
Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award and runner-up for Countryfile Book of the Year. For millennia, the passing seasons and their rhythms have marked our progress through the year. But …
Giants of Steam
Jonathan GlanceyRRP: £25.00
The thrilling story of the last, and greatest, generation of steam railway locomotives in regular main line service: a story of invention, skill and passion, Giants of Steam reveals how the true advoc …
Strange Blooms
Jennifer PotterRRP: £14.99
In seventeenth-century Britain, a new breed of ‘curious’ gardeners were pushing at the frontiers of knowledge and new plants were stealing into Europe from East and West. John Tradescant and his son w …
Green Philosophy
Roger ScrutonRRP: £14.99
The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political Left, which has seen the principal threats to the earth as issuing from international capitalism, consumerism and the over-explo …
Moron to Moron
Tom DoigRRP: £9.99
In July 2010, Tom Doig and his best mate Tama Pugsley cycled 1487 kilometres across northern Mongolia from a small town called Moron to a smaller town also called Moron. Why? Because it was there. Arm …
Stringer
Anjan SundaramRRP: £12.99
Written with startling beauty and acuity, Stringer is an account of a year and a half that Anjan Sundaram spent in the Congo working on the bottom rung of the Associated Press. It was an intense perio …
The Longshoreman: A Life at the Water's Edge
Richard SheltonRRP: £8.99
‘When I first urged Richard Shelton to write his naturalist’s memoir, I never expected him to produce a classic. But he has.’ Redmond O’Hanlon, author of Trawler Fish have been a lifelong obsession fo …
Outlaws
Adam ShandRRP: £9.99
What’s it like to be an outlaw biker? ‘We’re dickhead magnets,’ one of them tells Adam Shand. ‘Drunks in bars like to test themselves against a so-called outlaw.’Once seen as a free-wheeling, brawling …
Running to Extremes
Lisa TamatiRRP: £8.99
Lisa Tamati gets asked one question more than any other: ‘Why do you do it?’ In Running to Extremes, she attempts to answer that question and many more about ultramarathon running.In the past few year …
The Sea and Civilization
Lincoln PaineRRP: £30.00
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARITIME MEDIA AWARDS 2014A monumental, wholly accessible work of scholarship that retells human history through the story of mankind’s relationship with the sea.An accomplishment …
Destination Cambodia
Walter MasonRRP: £8.99
From the rich tropical city of Phnom Penh, the wonders of Angkor Wat, and the oddly loveable country town of Kampot, to Sihanoukville, named after the movie-directing and womanising former king, Walte …
To the Edge of the World
Christian WolmarRRP: £16.99
Christian Wolmar expertly tells the story of the Trans-Siberian railway from its conception and construction under Tsar Alexander III, to the northern extension ordered by Brezhnev and its current suc …
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