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Don’t enter the New Year unarmed without either a fine travel guide to your destination and perhaps a spot of written reflection on its pleasures. Upcoming we have the very much missed A.A. Gill’s posthumous collection Lines in the Sand and perfect now for a sometimes cruel but beautiful month, Christopher Somerville’s The January Man: A Year of Walking Britain.
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In The Mizzle and Fog: Wyl Menmuir on The Many
One of the more unusual novels to make 2016’s Man Booker longlist was Wyl Menmuir's The Many. Originally from Stockport, Menmuir now lives with his family by the rugged north coast of Cornwall. Here, he takes us for a walk over the Cornish rocks and across the landscape that inspired his dark, enigmatic and intricate debut.
Travelling without moving
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Have iPad, Will Travel: Notes From a Digital Nomad
The digital nomad: with no fixed address, living in a camper van and running a business on the hoof, contemporary communication connectivity may just have the power to set us free. Author William Thomson (whose splendid guide to coastal Britain The Book of Tides was published in the autumn of 2016) lives just such a life and for Waterstones Online, he sets out the stall for the lifestyle's five key benefits.
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Through The Prism of Geography
Over twenty-four years at Sky News, author and journalist Tim Marshall reported from many of the world’s primary flashpoints (including a distinguished stint covering the Balkan conflicts of the 1990s) and as their Middle East Correspondent charted Gaza’s disengagement in 2005 and the uprisings across the Arab World. His blog Foreign Matters was short-listed for the Orwell Prize in 2005.
Nicholas Lezard in the Evening Standard called Marshall’s Prisoners of Geography ‘one of the best books about geopolitics you could imagine,’ and after a winning stint as a Waterstones Book of the Month was shortlisted as a Waterstones Book of the Year for 2016. In this Waterstones exclusive, the author considered exactly where his cartographic obsession began.