Travel

Jon Woolcott is an entertaining and informative guide to Dorset, county of spectacular coast and countryside, historic towns, eco-foodie innovation, Hardy and Fowles. The county, too, of subversion, rebellion and revolt, wealth and poverty, and rich...

Lynne?Hjelmgaard’ s?The Turpentine Tree ?offers ?portraits of family, friends and relationships – of? Hjelmgaard’ s uprooted life, including a life at sea, subsequent displacement, widowhood and...

In Delirum Robert Minhinnick addresses his square mile: a small Welsh coastal town and massive sand dunes. But its uniqueness is challenged by the algorithms of globalisation, by the climate emergency, by a changing world led by corrupt, inept...

In Real Port Talbot, Lynne Rees goes in search of the delights of the ‘small but mythic town’ of Port Talbot. She explores its history and her own past and discovers a place both familiar and unexpectedly new. Updated with new information for...

Real Oxford shows that there’s more than dreaming spires and bicycles to the city. The grand buildings of the university are here, but Patrick McGuinness charts a personal history of the place which radiates into the suburbs and into the everyday...

Famously the ‘town of books’ and home to the Hay Literature Festival, Hay-on-Wye is a unique rural town in Wales, UK. Noakes uncovers the many quirks of this quirky place and explores its rural hinterland: the Black Mountains to the south,...

John Osmond calls Preseli – west and north Pembrokeshire – magical country. It is a landscape of bare hills, big skies and a dramatic coastline of bays and headlands. Real Preseli invites the reader to journey with Osmond as he walks the area...

Author and photographer Phil Cope takes us on a journey through the sacred wells of Wales, from the Anglesey to the Gwent. On his way he discovers wells in city centers and, quite literally, in the middle of nowhere—on mountainsides, in deserted...

Discover more of Cardiff in this latest volume, discovering new treasures and revisiting past haunts to find them drastically altered over just ten years. The pace of change has never been quicker, surpassing the booms of the city's nineteenth...

In Real Barnsley, Ian McMillan delves into the past of the Barnsley area in which he was born and still lives, exploring its history and recalling his various experiences of this particular patch of South Yorkshire. Barnsley, which is mentioned in the...

In this new addition to the Real series Ian Spring walks the streets, parks, pubs, workplaces, past and present of Glasgow, Scotland’s alleged second city in an exploration of the peaks and troughs of its history leavened by his personal...

Unique photographs transport readers to the China of the late 19th century in this lavish pictorial record of Isabella Bird's travelsIsabella Bird was one of the 19th century's most remarkable women explorers. Her global travels and subsequent...