Venice'The best book about Venice ever written' (Sunday Times) Jan Morris' bestselling travel writing classic is an essential guide to this magical city, newly introduced by Tracy Chevalier. Whether the dappled secrets of the city's canals, churches, calles and campos, to the romantic tales behind its revered landmarks, paintings, scultpures and mosaics the myths and history of the Venetian people or the legendary mystery of the the lagoon itself Jan Morris

Taita begins the long journey towards restoring the glory on the banks of the River Nile

Aboard the USS Orbis as it embarks from Boston and surges south to round Cape Horn

where the hottest topic of gossip is a missed bin collection

have come together in western culture over the past six centuries

they must push against the constraints of their sex to carve new lives for themselves - and in doing so make waves that will ripple throughout the next three thousand years

and where a devastating tragedy will unfold

Good writing

fun crinkly pages and engaging bright colours in this book as they explore the world with 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'

Historic Pub Crawls was born

or strolling through the farmer's market at Union Square before the bustling crowd appears

Tess suddenly has urgent questions of her own

there are also surprises