Sarah Glidden The award-winning graphic memoir about Israel that offers more questions than answers about identity and politics Sarah Glidden is a progressive Jewish American twentysomething who is both vocal...

Erik WeinhenmayerTouch the Top of the World: A Blind Man's Journey to Climb Farther than the Eye Can SeeErik Weihenmayer was born with retinoscheses, a degenerative eye disorder that would...

Amy LiptrotAfter a decade of heavy partying and hard drinking in London, Amy Liptrot returns home to Orkney, a remote island off the north of Scotland. The Outrun maps Amy’s...

Errol Lincoln UysBrazil is the first work of fiction to depict five centuries of a great nation's remarkable history, its evolution from colony to kingdom, from empire to modern republic....

WG SebaldCampo Santo is a collection of essays by W. G. SebaldWhen W.G. Sebald died tragically in 2001 a unique voice was silenced. Campo Santo is a collection of the...

Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume II(Sherlock Holmes #5, 7-9)Sir Arthur Conan DoyleSince his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes...

Patricia SchultzAround the World, continent by continent, here is the best the world has to offer: 1,000 places guaranteed to give travelers the shivers. Sacred ruins, grand hotels, wildlife preserves,...

Robert Louis Stevenson This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was...

Peter GodwinAfter his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On...

AA GillEvery weekend A.A. Gill entertains readers of the Sunday Times with his biting observations on television and his unsparing, deeply knowledgeable restaurant reviews. He is one of a tiny...

Richard F Burton One of the great adventure classics. Victorian scholar-adventurer’s firsthand epic account of daring 1854 expedition to forbidden East African capital city. A treasury of detailed information on...

Alex Garland A 20th anniversary edition of this million copy bestseller, with a new introduction by John Niven: a classic story of paradise found - and lost.Richard lands in East...