Prepare to shop for gemstones and jewellery on your next holiday Going on holiday and fancy buying a piece of jewellery? Are you planning on making a romantic gesture, but your lack of knowledge makes you uneasy about parting with your hard-earned cash? What should you look out for? How do you know it's real? How do you bring it home safely? This handy...

If you're from Halifax, you've probably heard that the Five Fisherman Restaurant is supposedly haunted, and that Georges Island is overrun with ghosts. If you're from Nova Scotia, you probably know about rumours of buried treasure on Oak Island, or about the UFO sighting in Shag Harbour. But what about the Grey Lady of Stoney Beach? Or the Ghost of Haddon...

From bangers ‘n’ mash to banh mi, London has one of the most eclectic vegan food scenes in the world, and it’s growing by the day. Discover creative twists on classic dishes, fusion cuisine and tempting desserts through Vegan London – with eighty of London’s best vegan and vegan-friendly establishments at your fingertips, you’ll find food and drink for...

Food and travel writer Kirk Richardson is searching for the best craft beer breweries in North America. From the shores of Southern California to the ports of New England and everywhere in between, Kirk brings together exceptional craft beers and stories from the unique characters who make them. Pull up a chair, pour yourself a pint, and relax: you're in...

An inspiring selection of hand-picked adventures, chosen by Ed Stafford. For those who don’t mind a bit of discomfort in order to experience the wilder side of our amazing planet.

Stunning photography, sketch maps, as well as Ed’s commentary throughout to inspire adventurers to create their own expeditions.

Open your mind and reboot your soul with these...

Christopher Somerville has covered the length and breadth of the UK on foot, and has written and broadcast about its history, landscape, wildlife and people for over 25 years. Now, in this extensive new volume, he selects his top 200 routes from his hugely popular Times column, A Good Walk.

More than just a basic guidebook, this is a meditation on our...

Whether you live in Scotland or are visiting, why settle for anything second-rate when you can be guided to so much that is superb? Peter Irvine's personal guide points you towards the best places to stay (whatever your budget), the best beaches, the best ice-cream, the best hill walks, the best bakers, the best spooky places, the best seafood, the best...

The true Irish insider's guide to the very best Ireland has to offer. This fully comprehensive and independent guide to Ireland gives you only the very best recommendations, whatever your budget.

Brought to you by the McKennas, who have over 30 years’ experience writing and talking about Ireland’s amazing food, drink and hospitality. Following the format of...

She lived among the rich Chinese.

Glamorous? It was and wasn’t.

Breathing Money discloses the musings of an undercover introvert who must confront the wealthy Asian scene as well as her past, present and future…all under a grimy, embroidered silk cloak of smoke. Her attempt to make peace with and appreciate today’s China was fraught with a few tiny issues:

How...

Intrigued by the endless accounts of English incomers ‘living the dream’ in France, Michelle Lawson set out to find out what it’s all about beneath that romantic veneer. Travelling around the Ariège Pyrenees she captured stories and observed the online interactions of a scattered English community, as well as frank conversations with new arrivals...

Who do you call if it all goes wrong on holiday?

Meet Doctor Ben MacFarlane – a very modern flying doctor. His job is get on a plane and bring patients home after holiday disasters, gap year crises, embarrassing incidents on business trips and all the other things that can go wrong when we head overseas.

Holiday SOS is his extraordinary...

How To Teach English in the Middle East is a full-service preparatory book for any native or near-native speaker of English intending to find employment as an ESL instructor in the Middle East. Drawing upon four years of experience as an English language lecturer at a technical college in a small desert town near the Arabian Sea, Eric Harrington Woro lays...

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Amsterdam is renowned as an anything-goes city. But it helps to know where to go.

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The cradle of the Italian Renaissance is unrivalled in the breadth of its artistic treasures.

Florence has the greatest collection of Renaissance art in the world, and a character list that reads like a Who's Who of the period's greatest artists and thinkers - Dante, Leonardo, Michaelangelo - not to mention the powerful families who financed...

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The Time Out Barcelona City Guide unveils the best kept secrets of the Med's most engaging destination.

Unparalleled in its enthusiasm for a good time, Barcelona barely has time to take down the bunting between its rollicking festivals. When there isn't an all-night fiesta on the street, there's more than likely a party on the beach and never...

Gobekli Tepe in Turkey is the oldest known temple in the world, dating back at least 9,000 years. This place will cause historians to rewrite history - would hunter-gatherers really know how to build walls, raise stone monoliths, and lay down waterproof floors?

In Istanbul a waiter at a restaurant in a former mosque quietly assured me that I wouldn't like...

Buying a fake can be a costly mistake!

Heading off on your next holiday adventure and considering buying a keepsake memento? Want to know how to buy a beautiful gemstone in your destination country without getting ripped off? Thinking of proposing on holiday and want to buy the engagement ring together out there? Interested in the idea of gemmology and...

From the great cathedral-like railways stations of the steam age to obscure lines built through spectacular landscapes to open up countries before the advent of motorised road transport, this book is a celebration of our lost railway heritage and the lines that can no longer be travelled. Through stunning images, Lost Railway Journeys evokes the romance...

Add some sparkle to your next adventure… learn how to buy gemstones with expert help! This pocket travel guide is part of the ‘Gemstone Detective’ series, created for those planning a trip to the vibrant country of Thailand.

Known as the ‘Land of Smiles’, Thailand is famous for its exquisite gemstones and jewellery.

Written by Kim Rix, a gemmologist (GIA)...

If you've ever wondered what it's like to explore the Blue Mountains, forage for bush tucker in Kakadu National Park, watch the sunrise over Uluru, or hire a campervan and drive to Bryon Bay, this is the book for you.

After moving from England, Alistair now calls Australia home and each year he explores different parts of the country. During these trips he's...

'Full of heart and hope' Heidi Swain.

Has she already met The One? What if Mr Right had come along at the wrong time...?

Evie Grant is forty-five years old, a widow, and single mum of two children about to leave the nest. Suddenly alone in the family home, Evie realizes she hates her job, hardly goes out and hasn't had a date since who knows when...

So it...

The White Moth is an intimate, riveting portrait of life at a farm villa in Tuscany, from the challenging times of fascism and foreign occupation in the 1940s to the idyllic farm-to-table times in the 1970s. A generational saga of longing, loss and displacement, the book is also an American woman’s tribute to her Italian husband and mother-in-law. 

While...

Bob McIntosh grew up as a single child on sheep and cattle stations in the outback of Australia and received a customary tough, thorough but loving countryside upbringing, based on a set of strong values, a good attitude to farm work and where a love of all aspects of nature comes as natural as nature itself. 

Not exactly sure what to do with life after...

Where else but Africa, can you touch mountain snow one day and run from a lion, another? Robbed of all his possessions, riddled with flu and wearing borrowed pink tracksuit bottoms, the Kilimanjaro climb was doomed to fail. Alistair was determined to raise money for charity and somehow made it to the crater rim before being escorted off the...

Travelling back to her home town with her young son, Sarah is ready to face up to what she ran away from ten years ago. As delays and diversions force her to return to well-known places from her youth, Sarah reflects on the relationships with her family and the events of the past that have shaped her present. Set in the wild, beautiful and unreliable...