Europe		MacLean, Rory Stalin’s Nose Flamingo 1992; pb Middleton, Nick Travels As A Brussels Scout Phoenix 2000 Stevens, Stuart Feeding Frenzy Abacus 1998; pb eating your way around, in 3 * Restaurants Walsh, Stephen Faithful Departures Penguin 2002 travels as a catholic pilgrim Fermor, Patrick Leigh Between the Woods and the Water Penguin 1988 sequel to ‘A Time of Gifts’ Hungary to Constantinople Fermor, Patrick Leigh A Time of Gifts Penguin 1979 walking from Britain to Hungary Ferris, Stuart; Bassett, Paul Don’t Lean Out Of The Window Summersdale 1999 Europe, inter-rail adventures Drysdale, Helena Mother Tongues Picador 2002 travels through tribal Europe Steinbach, Alice No Reservations Bantam Books 2001 American travels through Europe for self-exploration Kurtz, Irma Then Again - Travels in Search of a Younger Self 4th Estate 2003 Kurtz travelled to Europe first in 1954, now re-vistis the sites and her travel journals Patrick Leigh Fermor A Time To Keep Silence John Murray , first published 1957 life in monasteries Christopher Nigel Lambert Taking a Line for a Walk Antique Collector’s Club 2004 walking from LeHavre to Rome David Moore The Accidental Pilgrim Hodder 2004 cycling from Ireland to Italy in the footsteps of St Columba Nicholas Jubber The Prester Quest Doubleday 2005 from Venice to Ethiopia in the footsteps of a medieval emissary J R Daeschner Eurotripping Arrow 2006 in search of weird and whacky customs	Fraser, Nicholas Continental Drifts Vintage 1998 Bryson, Bill Neither Here Nor There Transworld 1998; pb anecdotes Moore, Tim Continental Drifter Abacus 2001 retracing the 1608s journey of the first ‘tourist’ from Britain to Venice Toibin, Colm The Sign Of The Cross Vintage 1995 travels in catholic Europe Crane, Nicholas Clear Waters Rising Penguin 2000 mountaineering from the Pyrenees to Transsylvania Ferris, Stuart; Bassett, Paul Don’t Mention The War Summersdale 1998 Europe, inter-rail adventures Browne, Peter Francis Rambling on the Road to Rome Summersdale, first publ 1990 walking from Surrey to Rome Mustoe, Anne Cleopatra’s Needle Virgin Books 2003 cycling from the Thames to Cairo along rivers Johnson, Lisa (Ed) Rite of Passage Lonely Planet 2003 Tales of Backpacking around Europe James Dodson Road to Somewhere Heinemann 2004 American father and son visit Europe Danny Wallace Join Me Ebury Press 2003 forming your own sect Victoria Clark Far-Farers Pan 2005 in the footsteps of the Viking Thorvald the Far-Farer from Iceland to Jerusalem Mary Elsy Pedals and Petticoats Summersdale 2005 cycling through Post-War Europe Michael Booth Just as well I’m Leaving Jonathan Cape 2005 Europe, in the footsteps of Hans Christian Andersen
Balkans		West, Rebecca Black Lamb and Grey Falcon Cannongate, originally published 1942 the author’s three journeys to Yugoslavia in the 1940’s Tony White Another Fool in the Balkans Cadogan 2005 through the Balkans in the footsteps of Rebecca West Hickman, Alex Slow Winter Travellerseye 2000 one year as a Balkan correspondent	Murphy, Dervla Through the Embers of Chaos John Murray 2002 cycling through the Balkans Garth Cartwright Princes Among Men Serpent’s Tail 2005 journeys with Gypsy musicians •Pavel Hak ; Sniper ( contemporary violence)
Baltic		Noren, Allen Storm Traveller’s Tales motorcycling around the Baltic Sea	Rhys-Jones, Griff To the Baltic With Bob Michael Joseph 2003 sailing around the Baltic
Eastern Europe		Magris, Claudio Danube Harvill 2001 Eastern/Central Europe; history/ travels along the great river Vitaliev, Vitali Borders Up! Scribner 2000 why has alcohol consumption dramatically increased in post-communist Europe	•Julian Barnes; The Porcupine (the downfall of Eastern Europe) •Judy Budnitz; If I told you once (Family Saga) •Kazuo Ishiguro; The Unconsoled •Sandor Marai; Embers (Carpathians) •Jill Paton Walsh; A Desert in Bohemia ( Central Europe/ Czech Republic) Goodwin, Jason On Foot to the Golden Horn Penguin 1993 from Gdansk to Istanbul
Alps		Ring, Jim How the English Made the Alps John Murray 2001 historical; the english love affair with the alps •Franz Hohler; Stone Flood (Switzerland) •Rosanna Lippi ; Homestead (life in alpine villages )	Fleming, Fergus Killing Dragons Granta 2000 conquest of the Alps •Jamie Andrew ; Life and Limb (surviving a mountaineering tragedy, autobiographical)
Mediterranean		Waugh, Evelyn Labels Penguin, first published 1930 Mediterranean journal Tony Perrottet Route 66 A.D. Ebury 2002 in the footsteps of the Romans Newby, Eric On the Shores of the Mediterranean Picador 1984 Smith, Sebastian Southern Winds Penguin 2004 sailing around the Mediterranean Robert Kaplan Mediterranean Winter Arrow 2005 journeying off-season around the Mediterranena	Theroux, Paul The Pillars Of Hercules Penguin 1995 around the rim of the Mediterranean Morton, H V In the Steps of St Paul Methuen in the footsteps of St Paul (1936) Dingwall- Mains, Alex The Angel Tree Ebury Press 2003 in search of the oldest olive tree Ernle Bradford Ulysses Found Sutton 2004 in the footsteps of Ulysses
North Atlantic		Connelly, Charlie Attention All Shipping Time Warner Books 2004 Atlantic/ North Sea; visiting the places of the shipping news	Bear Gryllis Facing the Frozen Ocean Macmillan 2004 crossing the Northatlantic in an inflatable boat
North Sea		O’Hanlon, Redmond Trawler Hamish Hamilton 2003 journey on a trawler from Stromness to Greenland	Connelly, Charlie Attention All Shipping Time Warner Books 2004 Atlantic/ North Sea; visiting the places of the shipping news
Scandinavia		Joanna Kavenna The Ice Museum Viking 2005 Scandinavia and Northern Europe; in search of the legendary land of Thule	Nimmo, Ben In Forkbeard’s Wake Flamingo 2003 coasting around in Scandinavia
Albania		Hickman, Alex Slow Winter Travellerseye 2000 one year as a Balkan correspondent	Carver, Robert The Accursed Mountains Flamingo 1999 •Ismail Kadare ; Broken April
Austria		•Michael Andre Bernstein ; Conspirators ( turn of the century) •Stephen Knight; Mr Schnitzel •Dezso Kosztolanyi; Skylark (Austro-Hungarian Empire 1899) •Robert Schneider; Brother of Sleep ( Alps; perfect pitch)	Vienna •Eva Ibbotson ; The Star of Kazan (Vienna turn of century, kid’s book) •John Irving; Hotel New Hampshire (Vienna (parts)Setting Free the Bears •Graham Greene; The Third Man
Belarus		Marsden, Philip The Bronski House Flamingo 1997 Belarus/Poland
Belgium		Pearson, Harry Tall Man In A Low Land Little, Brown 1999	•Nicholas Royle ; Antwerp (crime novel)
Bosnia Herzegovina		Bill Carter Fools Rush In Doubleday 2004 •Maggie Helwig ; Between Mountains (Bosnia. civil war)	•Joe Sacco; The Fixer (Sarajewo) •Dan Fesperman; Lie In The Dark (Sarajewo; civil war; crime thriller)
Croatia		•various ; Croatian Nights ( anthology of new writing )
Cyprus		Durrell, Lawrence Bitter Lemons Of Cyprus Faber & Faber 2000 autobiographical ; 1953-56	Thubron, Colin Jouney Into Cyprus Penguin 1975 travels in the island’s last year of peace
Czech & Slovak Republic		•Louise Doughty ;Fires in the Dark (1930/40s) •Ivan Klima; The Ultimate Intimacy •Jill Paton Walsh; A Desert in Bohemia ( Central Europe/ Czech Republic)	•Josef Skvorecky; The Engineer of Human Souls
Prague		Ripellino, Angelo Magic Prague Picador 1995 Banville, John Prague Pictures Bloomsbury 2003	•Bohumil Hrabal, I Served the King of England/ Closely Observed Trains/ Little Town Were Time Stood Still (Prague and Bohemia) •Philip Roth; Prague Orgy
Denmark		Michael Booth Just as well I’m Leaving Jonathan Cape 2005 from Denmark to the Orient, in the footsteps of Hans Christian Andersen •Isak Dinesen; Babette’s Feast (Food) •Ib Michael ;Prince	•Olov Enquist; The Visit of the Royal Physician (Denmark; 1760s) •Peter Høeg; Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow •Rose Tremaine; Music and Silence (Denmark 1629)
Greenland		Ehrlich, Gretel This Cold Heaven 4th Estate 2002	Nansen, Fridtjof The First Crossing of Greenland Birlinn 2002 (first publ 1888)
France		Moore, Tim French Revolutions Yellow Jersey Press 2001 cycling the Tour de France Sommerville, E. Œ. / Ross, Martin In the Vine Country Vintage journey through the Medoc 1890s Barnes, Julian Something to Declare Picador 2002 essays Kelly, Susie Best Foot Forward Transworld 2002 on foot through France Zeldin, Theodore The French Harvill 1983 National Character Sanders, Michael From Here You Can’t See Paris Transworld 2004 setting up home in Les Arques Louise Luiggi Come to the Table Portrait 2004 Sixty Million Frenchmen Can’t Be Wrong Robson 2004 National Character Helena Frith-Powell No French Please, We’re British Gibson Square Press 2004 essays on Brits abroad Stephen Clarke A Year in the Merde Transworld 2004 fictionalised account of a Brit’s experiences in France Christopher Dawes Rat Scabies and the Holy Grail Sceptre 2005 in search of the Holy Grail Terry Darlington Narrow Dog to Carcassonne Bantam 2005 France, from England to France by narrowboat Jamie Ivey Extremely Pale Rosé Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2006 looking for pale rosé wine	Brayfield, Celia Deep France Pan 2004 Tindall, Gillian Celestine Minerva 1995 voices from a frech village Biggins, Alan Selling French Dreams Kirkdale Books 2002 acecdotes of people buying property in France Bemelmans, Ludwig How to Travel Incognito first published 1952 humorous; post-war France Shally Hunt Sea Ahead Summersdale 2005 walking from Scotland to Nice Farrell, Nigel A Place in France Pan 2004 setting up a curry restaurant in France Susie Kelly A Perfect Circle Bantam 2006 through France with a campervan Michael Sadler Englishman a la Campagne Simon & Schuster 2004 •Julian Barnes ; Cross Channel (the British in France) •H E Bates; Fair Stood the Wind for France (French Alps) •Anita Brookner; Bay of Angels (Nice) •David Crackanthorpe; Stolen Marches (occupied France) •Michelle De Krester; The Rose Grower (18th century) •Sebastian Faulks; Birdsong (WW1)/ The Girl at the Lion d’Or (1930s)/ Charlotte Gray (occupied France 1942) •Joanne Harris; Chocolat; Blackberry Wine; Five Quarters of the Orange (small town/ country life •Christopher Hope; Signs of the Heart (rural France; non-fiction) •Sebastien Japrisot ;One Deadly Summer •William Maxwell ;The Chateau •Irene Nemirovsky ; Suite Française (Nazi occupied France) •Frederic Richaud; Gardener to the King ( Louis XIV) •Marta Morazzoni ;The Alphonse Courrier Affair ( French country life)
Brittany		White, Kenneth House of Tides Polygon 2000 letters and essays Bodil Malmsten The Price of Water in Finistere Vintage 2006 setting up home in Brittany	•Joanne Harris ; Coastliners ( Breton Islands)
Burgundy		Greene, Jeffrey French Spirits Bantam Press 2003 setting up home in Burgundy	•Elizabeth Knox ;The Vintner’s Luck (Burgundy/ Wine)
Central France		Stevenson, Robert Louis Travels With a Donkey Through the Cevennes Oxford University Press journey 1878 Hilary Macaskill, Molly Wood Downhill All the Way Frances Lincoln 2006 following the Stevenson trail with donkeys	Christopher C Rush To Travel Hopefully Profile 2004 retracing Stevenson’s steps with a donkey through the Cevennes for therapeutic reasons
Corsica		Carrington, Dorothy Dream-Hunters of Corsica Phoenix 1996 W G Sebald Campo Santo Penguin 2006 some essays and pieces on Corsica	Carrington, Dorothy Granite Island Penguin, first published 1971
Dordogne		Atkinson, Patricia The Ripening Sun Century 2003 the creation of a vineyard	Josephs, Jeremy A Vinyard in the Dordogne Metro 2002
Languedoc		Moon, Patrick Virgile’s Vineyard John Murray 2003 a year in the Languedoc Wine Country Patrick Moon Arrazat’s Aubergines Faber 2005 Angela Murrills Hot Sun, Cool Shadow Alison & Busby 2005	Hope, Christopher Signs of the Heart Macmillan 1999 Rupert Wright Notes from the Languedoc Vintage 2005
Limousin		Wiles, Richard Bon Courage! Summersdale 2003 renovating a house	Richard Wiles Bonne Chance! Summersdale 2006 sequel to Bon Courage
Normandy		Biggins, Alan A Norman Tapestry Kirkdale 1994 portrait of rural France George East Home and Dry in Normandy Orion, new edition 2005 George East French Kisses Orion Rob Silverstone A Mule in Rouen Vanguard Press 2004	Loomis, Susan On Rue Tartin Harper Collins 2001 settling in Normandy Loomis, Susan Tarte Tatin Harper Collins 2003 sequel to ‘On Rue Tatin’ •Michele Roberts ;Daughters of the House
Paris		Hemingway, Ernest A Moveable Feast Arrow first published 1936 Paris 1920s; biographical Paul, Elliot The Last Time I Saw Paris Sickle Moon biographical account; first published 1942 Sedaris, David Me Talk Pretty One Day Abacus 2001 American in Paris, humorous Gopnik, Adam Paris to the Moon Vintage 2001 American lawyer settles in Paris White, Edmund The Flâneur Bloomsbury 2001 a writer walks though the city Rossant, Colette Return to Paris Bloomsbury 2003 memoir with recipes Sarah Turnbull Almost French Nicholas Brealey 2002 a new life in Paris John Baxter We’ll Always have Paris: Sex and Love in the City of Light Doubleday 2005 Bohemian Paris	Sadler, Michael An Englishman in Paris Pocket Books 2003 1 year in Paris Paris Tales Oxford University Press 2004 anthology Flanner, Janet Paris Was Yesterday Virago 2003 Paris 1920s •Elaine Dundy; The Dud Avocado (Americans in Paris 1950s) •Alan Fust; Red Gold/ The World at Night (WW2 spy thrillers ) •Anna Garvalda ; Hunting and Gathering •Ernest Hemingway, Fiesta (Fiction, Spain and Paris; Bullfighting) •Georges Simenon; crime novels featuring detective Jules Maigret •Victor Hugo; Notre Dame de Paris/ Les Miserables (19th c) •Joan Lingard; The Kiss (Rodin’s Paris) •Hilary Mantel ;A Place of Greater Safety ( 1789; french revolution) •W Somerset Maugham ;The Magician ( Paris early 20th century) •Georges Perec; Life: A User’s Manual ( life in an appartment block) •Jean Rhys; Good Morning, Midnight ( Paris 1920s) •Patrick Süskind ;Perfume (Paris/ South of France 18th c) •Rose Tremaine; The Way I Found Her
Poitou-Charentes		Kelly, Susie Two Steps Backward Bantam 2004 Prequel to ‘Best foo forward’
Provence		Mayle, Peter; Clancy, Judith (Ill.) A Year In Provence Penguin 1999 Mayle, Peter; Clancy, Judith (Ill.) Encore Provence Penguin 2000 sequel to ‘ A Year in Provence’ Mayle, Peter Toujour Provence Penguin 1991 Dingwall-Main, Alex The Luberon Garden Ebury 2001 settling and gardening in Provence Alex Dingwall-Main The Vine Garden Vintage 2005 sequel to ‘Luberon Garden’ Drinkwater, Carol The Olive Farm Abacus 2001 setting up home in Provence Drinkwater, Carol The Olive Season Time Warner 2003 sequel to The Olive farm Carol Drinkwater A Celebration of Olives Time Warner 2004 hardback bind-up of Olive Farm and Olive Season Carol Drinkwater Olive Harvest Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2004 third part of Olive Trilogy Fortescue, Lady; Shepard, E. H. Perfume From Provence Black Swann 2000	Peter Mayle Confessions of a French Baker Time Warner 2006 french baking Thornton, Hélène Cat Chat Virgin 2001 settling in Provence with a cat Fisher, M F K Two Towns in Provence Vintage Marseille and Aix-en-Provence; first published 1964/ 1978 Dirk Bogarde A Short Walk from Harrods Penguin 1993 biographical •Lawrence Durrell; The Avignon Quintet (Provence) •Sebastien Japrisot; The Lady in the Car With Glasses and a Gun (Paris/ South of France) •Marcel Pagnol ;Water of the Hills/ My Father’s Glory and my Mother’s Castle •Pierre Magnan; Beyond the Grave/ Innocence (WW2)/ Death in the Truffle Wood (crime fiction) French Riviera Kanigel, Robert High Season in Nice Time Warner 2003 Nice; Tourism Carolyn McKenzie Portraits of the Riviera Penguin 2004 French Riviera •Françoise Sagan; Bonjour Tristesse (French Riviera) •Giles Waterfield; The Long Afternoon (1912 French Riviera) •Stephen Walker; The King of Cannes ( Film )
Pyrenees		Bogarde, Rupert Daybreak Into Darkness Pan 2003 biographical; setting up home in France turns into a nightmare Robin Fedden The Enchanted Mountains John Murray Travel Classics Pyrenees; 1950s Siman Calder; Mick Webb Backpacks, Boots and Baguettes Virgin 2004 walking the G10	Loughlin, Bernard In the High Pyrenees Penguin 2003 setting up home Rosemary Bailey Life in a Postcard Bantam 2002 Rosemary Bailey The Man Who Married a Mountain Bantam 2005
South-West France		Pamela Petro Slow Breath of Stone Fourth Estate 2005 in search of romanesque art Silvestre, Ruth A House in the Sunflowers Allison & Busby 1990 A Harvest of Sunflowers Allison & Busby 1996 Reflections of Sunflowers Alison & Busby 2004 Stevenson, Helen Instructions For Visitors Doubleday 2000 life in a small town in the sout west	Burton Race, John French Leave Ebury 2003 setting up a restaurant Marguerite Smith A House Among Vines Robert Hale 1997 The Collected Traveller - Southwest France Fodor 2003 Patricia Atkinson La Belle Saison Century 2005 South
Germany		Funder, Anna Stasiland Granta 2003 East Germany •Hermann Broch ; the Sleepwalkers Trilogy (neuroses of Germany WW1) • Tessa De Loo; The Twins (separated during WW2) •Penelope Fitzgerald; The Blue Flower (romantic Germany end 18th century) •Esther Freud; Gaglow (East Germany ) • Günter Grass; The Tin Drum/ Dog Years (a Kaleidoscope of Germany 1917 and 40 years on)	•Peter Handke; A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (Post War ; biographical) •Thomas Kennealy; Schindler’s Ark ( Nazi Germany) •Blake Morrison ;The Justification of Johann Gutenberg (middle ages) •Christoph Reich ;The Runner (post-war; Thriller) •Craig Russell ; Blood Eagle (Hamburg, thriller) •Berhhard Schlink ;The Reader (post-war Germany)
Berlin		Wladimir Kaminer Russian Disco Ebury 2002 Tales of Everday Lunacy on the streets of Berlin David Clay Large Berlin Penguin 2001 historical	•Ealonor Bailey; Marlene Dietrich Lived Here • Len Deighton; Charity/ Faith / Hope (Cold War Spy Thrillers) •Pierre Frei ; Berlin ( thriller 1945) •Christopher Isherwood; Goodbye to Berlin (pre WW2) •Philip Kerr ; Berlin Noir (Crime novels set 1918-1945) •Ian McEwan; The Innocent (Berlin) •Vladimir Nabokov; The Gift/ Laughter in the Dark ( Berlin, post-war)
Great Britain		Danziger, Nick Danziger’s Britain Flamingo 1994 Wallington, Mark Travels With Boogie Arrow 1988 walking with dog Bryson, Bill Notes From A Small Island Transworld 1996 humorous view Talbot-Ponsonby, Spud Two Feet, Four Paws Summersdale 1999 journey around Britain’s coastlines Hunt, Shally The Sea In Our Left Summersdale 1997 walk along Britain’s coastlines Crane, Nicholas Two Degrees West Penguin 2000 walking along the central meridian Rogers, Byron An Audience With an Elephant Aurum 2001 eccentric encounters Richardson, Paul Cornucopia Abacus 2001 is the english cuisine really that abyssmal? William Black The Land that Thyme Forgot Bantam 2005 eating your way through Britain Nicholson, Adam SeaManShip paperback publ as Atlantic Britain Harper Collins 2004 sailing along the Atlantic Coast Daeschner, J R True Brits Arrow 2004 quaint British customs James Ferguson Kandahar Cockney Harper Collins 2004 Britain/ Afghanistan, an Afghan’s exile in Britain Shally Hunt Sea Ahead Summersdale 2005 walking from Scotland to Nice David St John Thomas Journey Through Britain Frances Lincoln 2005 through GB by train Ben Fogle Offsh ore: In Search on an Island of My Own Michael Joseph 2006 Britains islands	Aaronovitch, David Paddling To Jerusalem 4th Estate 2000 around Britain in a canoe Sawyer, Miranda Park And Ride Abacus 2001 suburban life Theroux, Paul The Kingdom By The Sea Penguin 1984 ISBN Great Britain's coastlines Deakin, Roger Waterlog Vintage 2000 Great Britain, swimming Mortimer, Peter Broke Through Britain Mainstream 1999 on foot from Plymouth to Edinburgh Jennings, Charles People Like Us Abacus 1998 a season with the upper classes Curran, Jim The Middle-Aged Mountaineer Constable & Robinson 2001 cycling and climbing the length of Britain Penn, Rob The Sky is Falling On Our Heads Sceptre 2004 Scotland/ Wales/ Cornwall; travels around the Celtic Fringe Ian Marchant Parallel Lines Bloomsbury 2003 Britain’s love for trains Joe Queenan Queenan Country Pan Macmillan 2005 David Bennun British As A Second Language Ebury 2005 Trevor Norton Underwater To Get Out Of The Rain Century 2005 the British seaside Tom Cox Educating Peter Black Swan 2004 in search of Britains Rock and Pop culture David McKie Great British Bus Journeys Atlantic 2006 through Britain by bus Stephen Cartmell From Aintree to York: Racing Around Britain Bantam 2006
England		A A Gill The Angry Island Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 in search of violence and pugnaciousness in England Murphy, Bill Home Truths Mainstream 2000 decaying England Mackie, Mary Frogspawn and Floorpolish Summersdale 2003 life in a National Trust house Gogarty, Paul The Water Road Robson 2003 a narrowboat journey through England Byron Rogers Green Lane to Nowhere Aurum Press 2004 Northamptonshire village Steve Haywood Fruit Flies Like a Banana Summersdale 2004 England by canal and classic car John Nott Mr Wonderful Takes a Cruise Ebury 2004 an old age pensioner’s cruise through England	Cohn, Nik Yes We Have No Vintage 2000 Justin Brown UK on a G-string Summersdale 2004 Kiwi’s view of Britain Sam Llewellyn The Worst Journeys in the Midlands Summersdale 2004 by boat through the Midlands in the rain Aitch, Iain A Fete Worse Than Death Headline 2004 England in summer Paul Gogarty The Coast Road Robson 2004 around England in a motorhome Colin Irwin In Search of Albion Carlton 2005 Richard Lewis Magic Spring Atlantic 2005 Mathew Lyons Shakespeare’s Ghost Cadogan 2006 in the footsteps of Shakespeare
Southern England		Sebald, W G The Rings of Saturn Harvill 1998 ponderings in East Anglia Seal, Jeremy The Wreck at Sharpnose Point Picador 2001 Cornwall, the mystery of a 1842 shipwreck Porter, Tony The Great White Palace Bantam 2003 Burgh Island/ Devon, running an Art Deco Hotel	David Seabrook All the Devils Are Here Granta 2002 Essex Iain Siclair Edge of the Orison: In the Traces of John Clare’s ‘Journey Out Of Essex’ Hamish Hamilton 2005
Northern England		Jennings, Charles Up North Abacus 1995 Pearson, Harry Racing Pigs And Giant Marrows Orion 1997 Northern England country shows Wallington, Mark Pennine Walks Arrow 1996 walking the Pennine Way with a dog Peter Mortimer 100 Days on Holy Island Mainstream 2002 Deric Longden I’m A Stranger Here Myself Corgi 1994 Yorkshire Bibby, Bob Special Offa Eye Books 2004 Offa’s dyke Charles Nevin Lancashire, Where Women Die of Love Mainstream 2004 Harry Griffin, Martin Wainwright A Life in the Mountains Aurum 2005 Lake District, collection of travel writing	Armitage, Simon All Points North Penguin 1999 Davies, Hunter A Walk Along The Wall Orion 2000 Hadrians Wall Candida Lycett Green Over the Hills & Far Away Doubleday 2002 introspective journey on horseback Davies, Hunter A Walk Around The Lakes Orion 2000 Lake District Don Shaw The Hike Vintage 2005 3 grumpy old men go hiking in the Peak District •Kate Atkinson; Behind the Scenes of the Museum • Melvyn Bragg; The Soldiers Return (returning to Cumbria after WW2) •Emily Bronte; Wuthering Heights (19th century Yorkshire) •Billy Hopkins; Our Kid (Childhood)/ High Hopes •Howard Jacobson; The Mighty Walzer (Growing up in Manchester in the 50s) •Joan Jonker; Down Our Street/ etc (Liverpool family saga) •Willy Russell ;The Wrong Boy (Childhood)
Northern Ireland		Fletcher, Martin Silver Linings Abacus 2000 Murphy, Dervla A Place Apart Penguin 1979 •Colin Bateman; Divorcing Jack/ Circle of Violence (Belfast, The Troubles)	•Ronan Bennett; The Second Prison (Terrorism) •Seamus Deane; Reading In The Dark (1940s, 50s) •Pat Gray; A Political Map of the Heart •David Park ;The Big Snow •Peter Pringle ;Those Are Real Bullets, Aren’t They •Bernard MacLaverty ;Cal (Belfast; the Troubles)/ The Anatomy School (1960s)
Scotland		Peter Kerr From Paella to Porridge Summersdale 2006 returning from Mallorca to Scotland Morton, H V In Search of Scotland Methuen travels in the 1930s Skinner Sawyers, June (ED) The Road North The Inn Pinn 2000 300 years of classic scottish travel writing Jennings, Charles Faintheart Abacus 2001 an Englishman ventures north Nicolson, Adam Sea Room Harper Collins 2001 life on a remote island in the Outer Hebredies Cooper, Derek Road to the Isles Macmillan 2002 Hebredies and travel 1770-1914 new Neal Ascherson Stone Voices Granta 2002 history and identity Kerr, Peter Thistle Soup Summersdale 2002 country life in East Lothian Basan, Ghillie The Moon’s Our Nearest Neighbour Warner 2001 setting up home in the Highlands Banks, Iain Raw Spirit Century 2003 visiting whisky distilleries Calum I Maclean Highlands Mainstream 2005 Peter Kemp Of Big Hill and Wee Men Luath 2004 Scottish hillwalking	Nick Thorpe Adrift in Caledonia Little, Brown 2006 Scotland’s waterways Kathleen Jamie Findings Sort of Books 2005 landscapes of Scotland •Marion Fraser (Romance) •Rosamunde Pilcher; Wild Mountain Thyme/ (Romance, Family ) •Alexandra Raife ; Jessica Stirling (Romance/ Family Sagas) •Bess Ross ;Those Other Times (rural Scotland) •Jessica Stirling (Romance) •Nigel Tranter (Scotland/ historical novels) Edinburgh Yee, Chiang The Silent Traveller in Edinburgh Mercat Press 2003 Edinburgh in the 40s •David Ashton ; Shadow of the Serpent (victorian Edinburgh) •Christopher Brookmyre; Boiling a Frog/ Quit Ugly One Morning Laura Hird Hope and other Urban Tales (contemporary ) •Joyce Holmes; Fizz Fitzgerald & Tam Buchanan crime stories •Paul Johnston, Quintillian Dalrymple futuristic crime novels set in the year 2026 •Quintin Jardine; John Skinner crime novels •Ian Rankin; John Rebus crime novels •Alexander McCall Smith ; Sunday Philosophy Club; Friends, Lovers, Chocolate; 44 Scotland Street •James Robertson; The Fanatic •Christopher Wallace; The Resurrection Club •Irvine Welsh; Trainspotting/ Glue/ Porno Glasgow • MacArthur ;No Mean City •Meg Henderson; Finding Peggy/ Chasing Angels •Mark Pye ;Lollipop/ Rewire •Manda Scott; Hen’s Teeth/ Night Mares •Louise Welsh; The Cutting Room (Gay Glasgow) Highlands and Islands •Compton Mackenzie; Whisky Galore/ Monarch of the Glen •Robin Jenkins; Poor Angus •John McKay ;The Road Dance (Western Isles WW2) •Iain Crichton Smith ;Consider the Lily ( Scotland/ Highland Clearances) •Virginia Woolf ; To the Lighthouse (Skye) Orkneys •George Mackay Brown •Zoë Strachan; Negative Space Shetlands •Alice Thompson; Pharos (Ghost Story)
Wales		Morris, Jan Wales Penguin 2000 Newberry, Tony Travels For Pleasure Gomer 1994 North Wales Petro, Pamela Travels In An Old Tongue Flamingo 1998 welsh speaking communities around the world Corbett, Judy Castles In the Air Ebury 2004 renovating an old castle	Knox-Mawer, June A Ram in the Well - A Welsh Homecoming John Murray 2002 Rogers, Byron The Bank Manager and the Holy Grail Aurum 2003 •Beryl Bainbridge; Another Part of the Wood •Anna Davis; Melting •Richard Llewelin; How Green Was My Valley •Dylan Thomas; Rebecca’s Daughters •John Williams; Cardiff Dead/ Five Pubs, Two Bars and a Nightclub
Brighton		Richardson, Nicholas Breakfast In Brighton Gollancz 1999	•Graham Greene; Brighton Rock (Gangs)
London		Sinclair, Iain Lights Out For The Territory Granta 1998 Platt, Edward Leadville Picador 2000 the A40/ Western Avenue Ross, Christopher Tunnel Visions Fourth Estate 2001 London Underground/ Philosophy Morton, H V In Search of London Methuen 1950s Moore, Tim Do Not Pass Go Yellow Jersey 2002 in the footsteps of Monopoy Smith, Stephen Underground London Little, Brown 2004 underground waterways of London	Mark Wallington Day Job Arrow 2005 working as a gardener in North London Tarquin Hall Salaam Brick Lane Hodder & Stoughton East London Tim Bradford The Groundwater Diaries Flamingo 2004 the underground tributaries of the Thames Martin Amis, London Fields (West London) •Jake Arnott; The Long Firm (swinging 60s) •Julian Barnes; Metroland (suburban North London) •Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere (above, below and imaginary London) •Tobias Hill; Underground (thriller) •Matthew Kneale ;Sweet Thames (London 1849) •Hanif Kureishi; The Buddha of Suburbia (South London) •Michael Moorcock ;Mother London •Edward Rutherfurd, London (historical fiction) Crime novels by: Anne Perry (victorian) •Sarah Waters; Fingersmith (1860s; pickpockets)
Greece		Fermor, Patrick Leigh Mani Penguin 1989 Fermor, Patrick Leigh Roumeli Penguin 1988 Enfield, Edward Greece on my Wheels Summersfield 2003 cycling through mainland Greece Kizios, Katherine The Olive Grove Lonely Planet 1997 Byron, Robert The Station: Athos – Treasures and Men Phoenix first published 1928 Mount Athos Christopher Merrill Journey to the Holy Mountain Harper Collins 2004 Mount Athos Eleni Gage North of Ithaka Bantam 2004 looking for roots	Pettifer, James The Greeks Penguin 2000 Storace, Patricia Dinner With Persephone Granta 1998 Habegger, Larry (ED.) Greece Traveller’s Tales 2001 Anthology John Mole It’s All Greek to Me Nicholas Brealey 2004 Ann Rickard Not Another Greek Salad New Holland 2005 Sylvia & Terry Cook Greek-o-File (Volume 1, 2) Greek-oFile 2002/4) Greece and everything greek •Catherine Temma Davidson; The Priest Fainted •Panos Karnezis; Little Infamies •Olivia Manning ; The Balkan Trilogy (Greece/ Romania, WW2)
Athens		The Collected Traveller - Athens Fodor 2004 Anthology Elizabeth Speller Athens - A New Guide Granta 2004 walks in Athens	John Freely Strolling Through Athens Tauris Parke 2004 historical walks through Athens •Apostolos Doxiadis; Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture (Athens; Mathematics) Petrus Makaris; Late-Night News (crime fiction)
The Islands		Brennan, Fionnula On A Greek Island Poolbeg 1998 Paros •Paul Johnston; A Deeper Shade of Blue ( mystery/ crime) •Rosie Thomas ;The Potter’s House	Durrell, Lawrence The Greek Islands Faber & Faber 1978 Durrell, Lawrence Reflections on a Marine Venus Faber & Faber 1953 Rhodes
Cephalonia		Harris, Andy; Harris, Terry Captain Corelli’s Island Pavillion 2000	•Louis de Bernieres, Captain Corelli's Mandolin (fiction; italian & german occupation in WW2)
Corfu		Tennant, Emma A House In Corfu Jonathan Cape 2001 building a home (1960s) Tennant, Emma Corfu Banquet Summersdale 2003 memoir with recipes John Waller Greek Walls Yiannis 2004 John Waller Corfu Sunset Yiannis 2005	Durrell, Lawrence Prospero’s Cell Faber & Faber first published in 1945 Durrell, Gerald My Family and Other Animals Penguin 1959 childhood in Corfu in the 1930s •Mary Nickson ; The Venetian House
Crete		Stone, Tom The Summer of my Greek Taverna Simon & Schuster Patmos & Crete	MacLean, Rory Falling For Icarus Viking 2004 •Nicos Kazantzakis; Zorba the Greek (1920s)
Hungary		•Miklós Bánffy; They Were Divided (1st half of 20c) •Tibor Fischer; Under the Frog (Hungary 1944-56) •Peter Nadas; A Book of Memories/ The End of a Family Story	•George Szirtes (ED) ; Leopard V: An Island of Soul (anthology of Hungarian writing) •Lajos Zilahy ; Century in Scarlet( Hungary/Austria 19th century) •Béla Zsolt; Nine Suitcases (holocaust memoir)
Iceland		Moore, Tim Frost On My Mustache Abacus 2000 Iceland; Arctic; recreating the expedition of Lord Dufferin in 1856 Armitage, Simon; Maxwell, Glyn Moon Country Faber 1996 Auden, W H & McNeice, Louis Letters from Iceland Faber 1937 (print on demand) Sullivan, Paul Waking Up in Iceland Sanctuary 2003 Iceland and music	Magnussen, Sally Dreaming of Iceland Hodder & Stoughton 2004 biographical •Hallgrimar Helgason; 101 Reykjavik •Arnaldur Indriason ; Jar City/ Silence to the Grave/ Tainted Blood (Reykjavik, crime thriller) •Einar Kárason; Devil’s Island •Halldor Laxness; The Atom Station/ Independent People •Olaf Olafsson; The Journey Home •Zane Radcliffe ; The Killer’s Guide to Iceland
Ireland		Bradford, Tim Is Shane McGowan Still Alive HarperCollins 2000 Ireland and everything oirish Moreton, Cole Hungry for Home Penguin 2001 Great Blasket Island and its community O’Reilly, James (ED) Ireland Traveller’s Tales 2000 Anthology McCrum, Mark The Craic Phoenix 1999 Viney, Michael A Years Turning Penguin 1998 life on a farm in County Mayo Moorhouse, Geoffrey Sun Dancing Phoenix 1998 Ireland; Skellig Islands Fallon ,Steve Home With Alice Lonely Planet 2002 gaelic Ireland Norton, Trevor Reflections On A Summer Sea Arrow 2003 South West Ireland David Monagan Jaywalking With the Irish Lonely Planet 2004 Cork, American family in search of their roots Edward Enfield Freewheeling Through Ireland Summersdale 2005 cycling around Ireland Irwin, Colin In Search of the Craic André Deutsch 2003 Irish music Dublin •Maeve Binchy, Dublin 4 •Sean Moncrieff; Dublin (Thriller) •Roddy Doyle, The Commitments/ The Snapper/ The Van/ Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (Dublin1980s) •James Joyce; Dubliners/ Ulysses•Jennifer Johnston; The Gingerbread Woman/ Two Moons •Sean O’Reilly ; The Swing of Things	McCarthy, Pete McCarthy’s Bar Sceptre 2000 drinking ones way around Ireland Pete McCarthy The Road to McCarthy Hodder&Stoughton 2002 Ireland/ irish communities of the world McCarthy, John A Ghost Upon Your Path Bantam Press 2002 county Kerry Hawks, Tony Round Ireland With A Fridge Ebury 1999 Evan McHugh Pint-sized Ireland Summersdale 2005 an Australians quest for the perfect pint of Guinness Peter Biddlecombe Ireland: In A Glass of its Own Abacus 2006 patronising humour Donegan, Lawrence No News At Throat Lake Penguin 2000 country life •Maeve Binchy; The Copper Beech/ Circle of Friends/ Firefly Summer/ The Glass Lake/ Silver Wedding ( small town life and drama) •Dermot Bolger; Father’s Music / Ladies’ Night at Finbar’s Hotel •Frank Delaney ; Ireland (historical fiction) •Eilis Ni Dhuibhne; The Dancers Dancing (wild rural Ireland 1972) •J G Farrell ; Troubles (1919) •Carlo Gébler; How to Murder a Man (1854 Great Famine) •Patrick Kavanagh; The Green Fool ( rural Ireland) •John McGahern ;That They May Face the Rising Sun •Patrick McCabe ;The Butcher Boy (the dark side) •Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes (biography; childhood in Limerick) •Cauvery Madhavan; Paddy Indian (East Indians in Ireland) •Edna O’Brien; The Girl With Green Eyes •Jamie O’Neill ; At Swim Two Boys (1910s) •Colm Tóibin; Blackwater Lightship •William Trevor; The Hill Bachelors
Italy		Marble, Joan Notes From An Italian Garden Transworld 2000 Lawrence, D. H. D. H. Lawrence In Italy Penguin 1997 sketches (Sardinia, Lake Garda) Vida Adamoli La Bella Vita Summersdale 2002 Newby, Eric Love And War In The Appenines Picador 1983 Italy 1943 Rips, Michael Pasquale’s Nose Chatto & Windus 2001 adventures in a small town in Italy Jones, Tobias The Dark Heart of Italy faber & faber 2003 politics Black, William Al Dente Transworld 2003 italian food Keates, Jonathan Italian Journeys Picador 1992 Fort, Matthew Eating Up Italy Fourth Estate 2004 italian food Moore, Peter Vroom with A View Bantam 2004 with a Vespa through Italy Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Italian Journey Penguin 1970 19th century	James, Henry Italic Hours Penguin 1995 essays Laura Fraser An Italian Affair Ebury 2002 autobiographical Teran, Lisa St Aubin de Elements of Italy Little, Brown •Niccolo Ammmaniti ; Steal You Away/ I’m Not Scared (rural Italy) •Giorgio Bassani; The Garden of the Finzi-Continis ( Ferrara; jewish community in faschist Italy) •Gesualdo Bufalino; Tommaso and the Blind Photographer ( life in an italian apartment block) •Italo Calvino; Italian Folktales •Christopher Castellani ; A Kiss from Maddalena ( Italy WW2) •Deborah Lawrenson ; the Art of Falling(Italy, WW2) •Carlo Lucaretti; Day After Day (Bologna crime fiction) •Howard Reid ; Dad’s War (Italy WW2, biographical) •Italo Svevo; A Life •Sandi Toksvig ; Melted Into Air ( rural Italy) •Nicholas Griffin; The Masquerade (Italy 18th c) Southern Italy Charles Lister Heel to Toe Secker & Warburg 2002 Morton, H V A Traveller in Southern Italy Methuen Southern Italy 1969 Levi, Carlo Christ Stopped at Eboli first published 1947 •Lily Prior; Nectar (Southern Italy)
Northern Italy		•Michael Dibdin, A Long Finish (Aurelio Zen mystery set in Piedmont) •Michael Dibdin ; Back to Bologna ( Aurelio Zen mystery)
Liguria		Hawes, Annie Extra Virgin Penguin 2001 setting up home amongst the olive groves of Liguria Hawes, Annie Ripe for the Picking Penguin 2003 sequel to ‘ Extra Virgin’	Bowen, Elizabeth A Time in Rome Vintage Classic first published 1959 Newby, Eric A Small Place In Italy Picador 1995 •Frank Schaeffer ; Portofino (1960s)
Trieste		Magris, Caludio; Halliday, Iain Microcosms Harvill, 2000 Trieste and Istria	Morris, Jan Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere faber & faber 2001 biographical reflections
Venice		Paolo Barbaro Venice Revealed Souvenir 2002 Jan Morris Venice Faber & Faber 1960 de Blasi, Malena A Thousand Days in Venice Virago 2003 a new home and romance in Venice •Paul Adam ; Sleeper ( crime thriller) •Lilian Bouzane; In The Hands of the Living God (15th century) •Michael Dibdin; Dead Lagoon (Aurelio Zen mystery) •M R Lovric ; The Floating Book ( Venice 1468) •Ian McEwan ;The Comfort of Strangers •William Riviere ; By the Grand Canal (after WW1) •Barry Unsworth; Stone Virgin •Salley Vickers; Miss Garnet’s Angel	Norwich, John Julius Paradise of Cities Penguin 2003 Venice and its 19th century visitors Lovric, Michelle Venice: Tales of the City Little, Brown 2003 Travellers in Venice through the centuries Weidegger, Paula Venetian Dreaming Simon & Schuster 2004 Alain Buisine Venice, The Enchanted Mirror Souvenir 2005 John Berendt The City of Falling Angels Sceptre 2005
Verona		Parks, Tim Italian Neighbours Mandarin 1993 Parks, Tim A Season With Verona Secker & Warburg 2002 following Verona's football team	Parks, Tim Italian Education Vintage 1996
Abruzzo Mountains		Clifton, Harry On the Spine of Italy Pan 2000
Calabria		Annie Hawes Journey to the South: A Calabrian Homecoming Penguin 2005	Douglas, Norman Old Calabria Phoenix, first published 1915
Capri & Gulf Of Naples		Hazzard, Shirley Greene On Capri Virago 2000 biography of Graham Greene’s years on Capri Dan Hofstadter Falling Palace Profile 2006 Naples •Shirley Hazzard ; Bay of Noon •Belinda Jones; I Love Capri (chick-lit) •Elsa Morante; Arturo’s Island (Procida)	Munthe, Axel The Story of San Michele Flamingo rebuilding a ruined villa on Capri; first published 1929 Ross, Alan Reflections On Blue Water Harvill 1999
Rome		Hutchinson, Robert When In Rome Harper Collins 2000 Rome/ Vatican Marble, Joan Notes from a Roman Terrace Doubleday 2003	Carlo Levi Fleeting Rome John Wiley 2005 •Dan Brown; Angels and Demons (Thriller) •Michael Dibdin, Cabal (an Aurelio Zen mystery)
Sardinia		D. H. Lawrence; Kalnis, Mara (ED) Sea And Sardinia Penguin 1999	•Michael Dibdin, Vendetta (an Aurelio Zen mystery)
Sicily		Phelps, Daphne A House In Sicily Virago 2000 Simeti, Mary Taylor On Persephone’s Island Bantam Books 2001 Simeti, Mary Taylor- Bitter Almonds Bantam 2002 Sicillian childhood; with recipes Theresa Maggio The Stone Boudoir Review 2002 small villages Cronin, Vincent The Golden Honeycomb Harvill, first published 1954 Carlo Levi Words are Stones Hesperus post-war Sicly Claire Horatio Sicily Through Writer’s Eyes Eland 2006 upmarket travel writing	Robb, Peter Midnight In Sicily Harvill 1999 Lewis, Norman In Sicily Jonathan Cape 2000 •Gesualdo Bufalino; The Plague Spreader’s Tale ( Palermo; WW2) •Andrea Camilleri; Inspector Montalbano mysteries •Michael Dibdin, Blood Rain (an Aurelio Zen mystery) •Simonetta Agnello Hornby ; The Almond Picker ( Sicily; intrigue and murder in Sicily) •Giuseppe di Lampedusa; The Leopard (19th century) •Mario Puzo; The Godfather/ the Sicilian/ Omerta ( Mafia) •Lily Prior; La Cucina •Gianni Riotta ;Prince of the Clouds •Leonardo Sciascia ;The Council of Egypt / The Day of the Owl (Mafia) •Elio Vittorini ; Convesations in Sicily
Tuscany		Mayes, Frances Under The Tuscan Sun Transworld 1998 Mayes, Frances Bella Tuscany Transworld 2000 sequel to ‘Under the Tuscan Sun’ Parker, Alan Seasons In Tuscany Penguin 2000 house-sitting inTuscany Parker, Alan Ciao Tuscany Penguin 2002 Máté, Ferenc The Hills of Tuscany Flamingo 1998 setting up home in Tuscany Chen, Patrizia Rosemary and Bitter Oranges Virago 2003 growing up in a tuscan kitchen Pinti, Pietro & Bawtree, Jenny Pietro’s Book Constable 2003 The story of a tuscan peasant Rosemary George Treading Grapes Transworld 2004 through the vineyards of Tuscany Marlaene de Blasi A Thousand Days in Tuscany Virago 2005 Rocca, Tony Catching Fireflies Century 2004 settling in Chianti	Beth Elon Tasting Tuscany Bantam 2006 Tuscany cookery Romer, Elizabeth The Tuscan Year Orion 1998 Isabella Dusi Vanilla Beans & Brodo Pocket Books 2002 a home in Tuscany Dusi, Isabella Bel Vino Pocket Books 2004 Phil Doran Reluctant Tuscan Virgin 2005 Beevor, Kinta A Tuscan Childhood Penguin 1993 autobiographical; 1917 •Elizabeth Falconer; A Barefoot Wedding (Holiday Read) •Valery Martin ; Italian Fever •James Hamilton Paterson; Cooking With Fernet Branca ( expat satire) •John Mortimer; Summer’s Leave •William Rivière; Kate Caterina (Fascist Tuscany) •Lou Wakefield; Tuscan Soup Florence David Leavitt Florence, A Delicate Case Bloomsbury 2002 •Magdalen Nabb ; The Innocent/ Property of Blood (detective novels)
Umbria		Nelson, Karen Foreign Fields Piatkus 2000 •Barry Unsworth; After Hannibal	Teran, Lisa St Aubin de Valley in Italy Penguin 1995
Latvia		Ransome, Arthur Racundra’s Third Cruise Fernhurst 2002 sailing up the river Lieupe 1924	•Henning Mankell; Dogs of Riga
Liechtenstein		Carlie Connelly Stamping Grounds Abacus 2005 following the national football team of Liechtenstein
Malta		•Trezza Azzopardi; The Hiding Place (WW2) •Nicholas Montsarrat; The Kappillan of Malta ( WW2) •Nicholas Rinaldi; The Jukebox Queen of Malta ( Occupation WW2)
Moldova		Hawks, Tony Playing The Moldovans At Tennis Ebury, 2000 humorous
Netherlands		•Tracy Chevalier ;Girl With A Pearl Earring ( set in Vermeer’s Delft) •Marcel Moring ;In Babylon •Susan Vreeland; Girl in Hyacynth Blue ( another Vermeer yarn)	•Arthur Japin; Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi ( 1837, two african princes at the court) •Jane Stevenson; Astraea ( 1640s)
Amsterdam		Mak, Geert Amsterdam -A Brief Live of the City Harvill 2001 History and present times Condon, Sean My ‘Dam Life Lonely Planet 2003 Three years in Holland	•Louis Couperus; Ecstasy (19th century) •David Liss; The Coffee Trader (17th century) •Deborah Moggach; Tulip Fever (17th century height of the tulip mania) •H.M. Van Den Brink; On the Water (summer of 1939) •Sylvie Matton ;Rembrandt’s Whore (17th century)
Norway		Paul Watkins Fellowship of Ghosts National Geographic Books 2004 through the mountains of Norway	•Lars Saabye Christensen ;The Half Brother •Herbjorg Wassmo; Dina's Book/Dina’s Son
Poland		Marsden, Philip The Bronski House Flamingo 1997 Poland/ Belarus	•Pawel Huelle ; Mercedes Benz (Gdansk post-Communism) •Jerzy Kosinski ;The Painted Bird ( Poland WW2) •Isaak Bashevis Singer ; In My Father’s Court •Andrzej Stasiuk; The White Raven •Tomek Tryzna; Girl Nobody
Portugal		Saramago, José Journey To Portugal Harvill 2000 •Monica Ali ; Alentejo Bluel •Eduardo Berti ; Agua •Sarah Dearing; The Bull is not Killed (1974) •Antonio Tabucchi; Declares Pereira •Jose Saramago; Baltasar and Blimunda ( rural Portugal 18th c)	Lisbon •William Boyd; The Blue Afternoon •José Saramago; The History of the Siege of Lisbon/ The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (Lisbon 1936) • Richard Zimler ; The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon (persecution of Jews 16th century) •Robert Wilson; A Small Death in Lisbon
Romania		•Olivia Manning ; The Balkan Trilogy (Romania/ Greece, WW2) •Herta Müller; The Land of Green Plums (Ceausescu era)
Russia		Schmemann, Serge Echoes of a Native Land Abacus 1998 200 years of a russian village Chamberlain, Lesley Volga, Volga Picador 1996 Lesley Chamberlain Motherland Atlantic 2004 history of Russia Hobson, Charlotte Black Earth City Granta 2001 a year in the heart of Russia Thubron, Colin Among The Russians Penguin 1983 Bennett, Vanora The Taste of Dreams Review 2003 caviar & post soviet Russia Wilk, Mariusz The Journeys of a White Sea Wolf Harvill 2003 Solovetzki Islands Took, Roger Running With Reindeer Hodder & Stoughton 2004 Murmansk, North-Western Russia after Soviet Meier, Andreas Black Earth Harper Collins 2004 Putin’s Russia Cheremeteff Jones, Catherine A Year of Russian Feasts Bantam 2003 Russia and Food Peter Fleming One’s Company Harvill (re-issue) journey to Russia and China in the 1930s	Tim Cope; Chris Hatherley Off the Rails Summersdale 2004 through Russia, Siberia and Mongolia on recumbent bikes Marsden, Philip The Spirit Wrestlers Flamingo 1999 myths and folklore Newsham, Brad All the Right Places Bantam 2003 Travelling light through Japan, China and Russia Pre-Revolutionary Russia (19th century) •J M Coetzee; The Master of Petersburg (19th century) •Ivan Gontscharov; Oblomov •Nicolaj Gogol; Dead Souls Revolution •Tom Bradby; The White Russian (St Petersburg 1917) •Mikhail Kononov; The Naked Pioneer Girl (spoof of heroic soviet tales) •Boris Pasternak ;Doctor Zhivago (Russia/ Revolution) •Malcolm Bradbury; To the Hermitage •Mikhail Bulgakov; The Master and Margharita (Moscow 1930’s)/The Heart of a Dog(Moscow) •Joseph Conrad; Under Western Eyes (1911) •Donald James; The Fortune Teller/ Monstrum (modern thrillers) •Victor Pelevin; The Clay Machine Gun/ Babylon (Russia; post-Sowietunion •Edward Rutherfurd: Russka(historical fiction) •Gillian Slovo ; Ice Road (Leningrad 1933) WW2 •Helen Dunmore; The Siege (Leningrad 1941) •Paulina Simons; The Bronze Horseman USSR •Martin Booth; The Industry of Souls (cold war; labour camp) •Alan Furst ; Dark Star (KGB) •Arthur Koestler; Sarkness at Noon (Stalin’s Sovietunion) •Andrei Makine; Confessions of a Lapsed Standard Bearer/ Requiem for the East (1960s)
Moscow		Hollingsworth, Nick Moscow - The Beautiful and the Damned Andre Deutsch 2003 life in Russia in transformation	•Shamim Sarif ; Despite the Falling Snow (post-Stalinist Moscow)
Siberia		Thubron, Colin In Siberia Penguin 2000 Paul S Grogan Barbed Wire and Babushkas Virgin 2005 a river odyssee across Siberia •Lionel Davidson; Kolymsky Heights (Spy Thriller)	Dervla Murphy Siberia By Accident Hodder & Stoughton 2005 Piers Vitebsky Reindeer People Harper Collins 2005 Siberian Arctic
Serbia		Asne Seierstad With Their Backs to the Wall Virago, updated 2005 civil war
Spain		Nooteboom, Cees; Sassen, Simone Roads To Santiago Harvill 1998 Graves, Lucia A Woman Unknown Harvill Press 2000 memoirs of a childhood in Spain France, Miranda Don Quixote’s Delusions Weidenfels & Nicolson 2001 Travels in Castillian Spain Webster, Jason Duende - A Journey in Search of Flamenco Doubleday 2002 Webster, Jason Andalus BlackSwan 2004 in search of moorish Spain Evans, Polly It’s Not About the Tapas Bantam 2003 around Spain on a bike	Edward Lewine Death and the Sun Doubleday 2005 bullfighing/ spending a year with a matador Morton, H V A Stranger in Spain Methuen, first published 1955 Ford, Richard Gatherings from Spain Pallas Athene first published 1846 •Ernest Hemingway, Fiesta/ Death in the Afternoon (Bullfighting)/ For Whom the Bell tolls (Civil War) •Javier Marias A Heart So White •Angela Vallvey; Hunting the Last Wild Man Civil War •Tariq Goddard; Homage to a Firing Squad •Manuel Rivas; The Carpenter’s Pencil
Andalucia & Costa Del Sol		Stewart, Chris Driving Over Lemons Sort Of Books 1999 Chris Stewart Parrot in the Pepper Tree Penguin 2002 sequel to ‘Driving over Lemons’ Chris Stewart Almond Blossom Appeiciation Society Sort of Books 2006 Brenan, Gerald South From Granada Penguin 1963 Sierra Nevada Briley, Shaun A Foreign Affair Ebury 2003 Gamel Woolsey Death’s Other Kingdom Eland historical, impact of civil war on small village in Andalucia Lewis, Norman A Tomb in Seville Vintage 2003 through Spain on the brink of Civil War	Alex Browning Shooting Caterpillars in Spain Survival Books 2005 setting up home in Andalucia (80s) Chetwode, Penelope Two Middle-Aged Ladies in Anlalucia John Murray 1963 Jacobs, Michael The Factory of Light John Murray 2003 life in an Andalucian village Innes, Miranda Getting to Mañana Bantam 2003 Lee, Laurie A Rose for Winter Vintage 1955 •Arturo Pérez-Reverte; The Seville Communion (Seville) •Robert Wilson; The Blind Man of Seville (crime thriller) •J. G. Ballard; Cocaine Nights (the Spanish underworld, Costa Del Sol) •Kevin Sampson; Leisure ( Costa del Sol; Tourism)
Barcelona		Hughes, Robert Barcelona Harvill 1999 Updated edition:National Geographic Directions 2004 Colm Toibin Homage to Barcelona Picador 1990	•Stephen Burgen; Walking the Lions •Manuel Vasquez Montalban; crime novels with detective Pepe Carvalho (Barcelona/ Madrid) •Carlos Ruiz Zafon ; The Shadow of the Wind
Catalonia & Costa Brava		Kirby, Martin No Going Back Time Warner 2003 a new home in an old farmstead	Lewis, Norman Voices from the Old Sea Picador 1984 Costa Brava in the 1950s
Costa Blanca		Lambert, Derek Spanish Lessons Ebury 2000 a new life in Spain/ Costa Blanca
Madrid & Surrounds		France, Miranda Don Quixote’s Delusions Weidenfels & Nicolson 2001 Travels in Castillian Spain Cela, Camilo Jose Journey to the Alcarria Granta 1998	•Arturo Pérez-Reverte ; Captain Alatriste (1620, Spanish Inquisition and swashbuckling) •Rafael Reig ; Blood On The Saddle ( crime novel)
Pyrenees		Matthew Parris A Castle in Spain Viking 2005 buying a castle in the Spanish Pyrenees	Robin Fedden The Enchanted Mountains John Murray Travel Classics (out of print) 1950s
Santiago de Compostela		Tim Moore Spanish Steps Jonathan Cape 2004 to Santiago de Compostela with a donkey Conrad Rudolph Pilgimage to the End of the World University of Chicago 2004	Mullins, Edwin The Pilgrimage of Santiago Signal 2000 first published 1974 Mefo Philips Horseshoes and Holy Water Virgin 2006 from Canterbury to Santiago de Compostela on horseback
Balearic Islands		Kerr, Peter Snowball Oranges Summersdale 2000 life in an orange orchard Kerr, Peter Mañana Mañana Summersdale 2002 second installment of the scottish fruitfarmer's adventures Peter Kerr Viva Mallorca Summersdale 2004	Peter Kerr Basketful of Snowflakes Summersdale 2005 vol 4 Stephen Armstrong White Island Bantam 2004 Ibiza Tomas Graves Turning Up At Dawn Harper Perennial 2005 music and culture of Mallorca
Canary Islands		•Michel Houellebecq ; Lanzarote
Sweden		•Åke Edwardson ; Sun and Shadow (Gothenburg, crime) •Henning Mankell, Faceless Killers, etc. crime stories (South of Sweden) •Henning Mankell ; The Return of the Dancing Master ( crime novel set in Northen Sweden) •Lisa Marklund; The Bomber (Thriller) •Mikael Niemi; Popular Music ( northern Sweden)
Switzerland		•Friedrich Glauser; Thumbprint ( Crime thriller 1936) •Frank Schaeffer ; Zermatt (1960s)
Turkey		Freya Stark The Lycian Shore John Murray travels 1952 Seal, Jeremy A Fez of the Heart Picador 1995 in serch of the Fez- Hat Sewell, Brian South of Ephesus Gibson Square Books 1988 an escape from the tyranny of western art in asia minor	Tony Wright Turn Right at Istanbul Allen & Unwin 2004 Gallipoli •Erendiz Atasü; The Other Side of the Mountains ( 3 generations of a turkish family) •Louis de Bernieres ; Birds Without Wings (Turkey, the end of the Ottoman Empire) •Rose MacAulay; The Towers of Trebizond (Turkey 1950) •Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red/ The White Castle/ Snow •Yashar Kemal; Salman the Solitary •Latife Tekin; Berji Kristin; Tales from th Garbage Hills/ Dear , Shameless Death
Istanbul		Freely, John Istanbul- The Imperial City Penguin 1998 history of the city Edmondo de Amicis Constantinople Hesperus 2005 classic travel writing fist time in English	'Orhan Pamuk Istanbul Faber 2005 •Perihan Magden ; The Novel of Two Young Girls •Barbara Nadel: 'Cetin Ikman' mystery series •Elif Shajak ; The Flea Palace
Ukraine		•Andrey Kurkov; Death and the Penguin/ Penguin Lost (Kiev)
Yugoslavia		Brân, Zoë After Yugoslavia Lonely Planet 2001 the author’s travels as a tourist 1978 and in the 90s during and after the civil war	•S. Draculic; As If I Am Not There (War 1991) •Vladimir Jokanovic; Made in Yugoslavia ( War )