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[[Category:New Reviews|Travel]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove --> <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Chris TownsendAlastair Humphreys|title= Out ThereLocal|rating= 45|genre= Animals and WildlifeTravel |summary= Chris Townsend Alastair Humphreys has been walked and cycled all over the world. And then written about it. For this book he walked and cycled very close to home and then wrote about it. As he says in his introduction, the book is an attempt ''Out Thereto share what I have learnt about some big issues from a year exploring a small map. Nature loss, pollution, land use and access, agriculture, the food system, rewilding…'' as a long distance walker One of the joys of the book for almost four decades. For most me was that the biggest thing he learned about all of these things was that time he has been equally ''out thereare no easy answers, no single 'right or wrong' as , that every upside is likely to have a champion downside for somebody and that there are some hard choices ahead.|isbn=1785633678}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0957181167|title=Blue Skies and Boat Trips: The Norfolk of the outdoors. He is the Brian Lewis|author of many books=Alan Marshall|rating=5|genre=Art|summary=There are few positive things which can be said about a substandard apartment when you’re on holiday but this time, many accounts in trying to avoid looking at a problem I found myself looking more closely at a couple of his treks, pictures on the walls - and his web site was completely taken by the work of Brian Lewis. I searched online and blogs receive many thousands could only find ‘used’ versions of visitsthis book and the print I wanted was ‘not available’. Here Oh, for dear - then a few doors down from the first timeapartment, he gathers his thoughts I found a gift shop with a stack of brand new books - and experience into a single volume, singing a hymn framed print of praise for the Wild, and stirring defence against human predationpicture I wanted. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124729</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kathleen Winter1785633457|title=BoundlessCharging Around: Adventures in Exploring the Northwest PassageEdges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=45

|summary=Luck Clive Wilkinson has a lot to do history of travelling by unconventional means with this worlda preference for slow travel. It was probably luck that let Kathleen Winter fill As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the post edges of unofficial writer-England in-residence on a ship coursing through the Northwest Passage. It an electric car was doubtless luck that someone had told her to be ready and packed to accept any invite life might give you, only days beforehandnot totally outrageous. Some fortune meant she had grown up in NewfoundlandIn fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and so knew the weather, conditions and liminal locations and wildlife she might encounter. It's bad luck that between when she travelled, in 2010his wife, and filled her pages with talk of Sir John Franklin's lost boats and lost bonesJoan, and 2016, when I read this paperback version of the results, his prime ship has been found (if not what people allege will be revealed). Itshouldn's vitally fortuitous, however, that someone with her writing nous was able to travel the waters before something else, much more permanent, changed – the heinous climate change problems that are certainly upsetting the world up there.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009958719X</amazonuk>t it?

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julia BradburyMerryn Glover|title=Unforgettable WalksThe Hidden Fires|rating=45

|summary=I've long been a fan of Julia Bradbury's walking programmes on television - I credit her with sparking my own interest in walking - so It is always about the book, not the news that writer, but there would shortly be another series of programmes ''and'' a book to accompany are times when the series was music to my ears. This time she's looking at Britainauthor's best walks with a view and she roams through Dorset, hinterland is also the Cotswolds, Anglesey, background to the Yorkshire Dalesbook and so it is necessary to understand that context, in order to appreciate the Lakesbook. Merryn Glover is of Australian parentage, Cumbriawas born in Kathmandu, grew up in the South Downs Annapurna and Himalayan and the Peak Districtnow lives in Badenoch in Scotland. Unless you'I can think of no-one better a combination to give us a re -appraisal of Nan Shepherds work than the first Writer in Scotland there's something reasonably close to just about everyoneResidence in the Cairngorms National Park. Merryn walks, with a good spread around all points not so much in the shadow of Shepherd, but in her spirit. I think the compasstwo would have gotten along famously.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1784298840</amazonuk>1846975751

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael PronkoB0B7289HKQ|title=Motions Conversations Across America: A Father and Son, Alzheimer's, and Moments: More Essays on Tokyo300 Conversations Along the TransAmerica Bike Trail that Capture the Soul of America|author=Kari Loya

|summary=Last year I was lucky enough to review [[Beauty and Chaos: Slices and Morsels of Tokyo Life by Michael Pronko|Beauty and Chaos: Slices and Morsels of Tokyo Life]], Michael Pronko's first essay collection about his adopted city. I found Kari (that book to be full of insight and varietyrhymes with ‘sorry’, so was delighted by the way) wanted to be approached about reviewing spend some time with his latest book, ''Motions father and Moments'', which is the period between two jobs seemed like a third set of essays (after ''Tokyo's Mystery Deepens'')good time to do it. Again The decision was made to ride the book is compiled Trans America Bike Trail from Pronko's ''Newsweek Japan'' articlesYorktown, Virginia to Astoria, this time from 2011 onwardsOregon - all 4250 miles of it - in 2015. All of They had 73 days to do it - slightly less than the pieces have been reworked, recommended time - but there were factors which pointed this up as more of a challenge that it would be for most of them remain short; 'Tokyo life is about spatial limitations,' Pronko wryly comments, people who considered taking it on. Merv Loya was 75 years old and ithe was suffering from early-stage Alzheimer's appropriate for his pieces to reflect that. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1942410115</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Geert MakErling Kagge|title= In America Travels with John SteinbeckWalking: One Step At A Time|rating= 4.5|genre= TravelLifestyle|summary= If someone tells you they're going to write Those who have read my reviews before will know that how much I loved a bookis evidenced by the number of pages with corners turned, and so let me start this one with an apology to the Norfolk Library Service: sorry! I forgot it was your book not mine. In my defence, I will be based on someone else's say that as a reader of this type of book, and there is something connective about noting where prior readers were inspired (provided it's based on a trip theyis subtle – I'll doallow creased corners, but not scribbles – for the latter we must buy our own copy – which that other person also did, you might be left confused I am about ''why'' exactly they would want to do thatas soon as I have finished telling you why). Surely more fun  Erligg Kagge is a Norwegian explorer who has walked to do your own thingthe South Pole, rather than re-trace the steps North Pole and the summit of someone whoEverest. He knows a thing or two about walking. However, this isn's been theret a travelogue about any of those epic journeys, done that? it is instead a thoughtful exploration of what it means to walk. It is a plenitude of unnumbered essays about walking. There is no 'contents'page and I haven't counted. In America Travels with John Steinbeck'' small format paperback, each essay is this bookonly a few pages long. Perhaps then, based on John Steinbeck's earlier adventure but taking place 50 years laterbetter thought of as a meditation rather than an essay.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099578735</amazonuk>0241357705

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bee RowlattMonica Connell|title=In Search of Mary: The Mother of all JourneysAgainst a Peacock Sky|rating=3.5|genre=AutobiographyTravel|summary=As Monica Connell went to Nepal to do the fieldwork for her Ph.D. in social anthropology. I think it is important to know that. She went on a university student at Glasgow, Bee Rowlatt first encountered the protogrant-feminist Mary Wollstonecraft through her epistolary travel narrativesupported trip, with a relatively specific objective. She wasn't a hippy wanderer looking for Shangri-la. She wasn'Letters from Norway''t a mere tourist passing through. She went with a fundamental aim of learning about these people and how they lived. This book is her homage She also went, presumably, with the academic discipline of how to Wollstonecraft as well as an attempt find these things out, how to pinpoint why this particular work has meant so much organise them in her mind, how to her over "understand" them in the years and helped her form context of her own ideas about feminism paradigms, and motherhood. From Norway how to Paris keep enough notes and files and then San Franciscophotos to help her create some greater sense of the experience after the event. Fortunately, Rowlatt follows in Wollstonecraft's footsteps she also went with a sense of open-ness and asks everyone she meets how modern feminism curiosity and motherhood can coincide. By using a Dictaphonewillingness to muck-in, she is able to recreate break her dialogues exactly, making for lively, conversational proseown rules and to truly connect with the people of the village where she hauled up.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1846883784</amazonuk>1780600429

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Stephen HallidayNicolas Bouvier|title=Cathedrals and Abbeys (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)The Japanese Chronicles|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryTravel|summary=What makes It never does to start a cathedral? It's not automatically the principal church review of anywhere that is made a city – St Davids is book with a village of 2quote from the blurb,000 people, and wasnbut sometimes it't always a citys unavoidable. Le Monde reviewed this book, but always had a cathedralat some point, as did Chelmsford. Itwith the words ''s not what the seat of old master craftsmen would call a bishop – Glasgow has the building but not the person, and hasnmasterpiece.''t had a bishop since 1690. It's not a minster – is precisely that's something completely different, and if you can understand the sign . A masterpiece in the delightful Beverley Minster describing sense of the difference, that I saw only craft as well as the other month, you're a better man art of writing. I, Gunga Din. Luckily this book doesn't touch on minsters much, and we can understand abbeys, so m going to hesitate to call it's only the vast majority of travel writing' because this book that is saddled with the definition problem. It's clearly not as much a real problemhistory of Japan, and those it does have are bya mythology-passable, primer for this successfully defines the Japanese culture as it is a cathedral as somewhere of major importance, fine trivia personal response to living and greatly worthy of our attentiontravelling in the country.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910821047</amazonuk>1906011044

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Zoe BramleyStephen Fabes|title= The Shakespeare TrailSigns of Life|rating= 45|genre= TriviaTravel|summary= It has been 400 years since William ShakespeareI was brought up on maps and first-person narratives of tales of far away places. I was birth-righted wanderlust and curiosity. Unfortunately, I didn't inherit what Dr. Stephen Fabes clearly had which was the man heralded as the greatest writer in the English language, guts to simply go out and Englanddo it. I also didn's national poet, died. Shakespeare has made a profound mark on our culture and heritage, yet many aspects t inherit the kind of his life remain in the shadowssteady nerve, ability to talk to strangers and many places throughout England basic practicality that would have meant that I would have forgotten their association survived if I had been gifted with himthe requisite 'bottle'. Here, Zoe Bramley takes In order words I'm not the reader sort of person who will get on a journey through hundreds of places associated with Shakespeare – many whose connections will bike outside a London hospital and not come as a surprise to mosthome for six years. Filled with intriguing titbits of information about Shakespeare, Elizabethan England, and the places Fabes did precisely that she talks about, this is no mere travel guide. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445646846</amazonuk>1788161211

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen HallidayRob Baker|title=London Underground (Amazing Toubab Tales: The Joys and Extraordinary Facts)Trials of Expat Life in Africa

|summary= From initial worries about smutty''"Go to Mali," they said. "The music is amazing," they said. "And you get ten hours of sunshine every day." So I did.'' Rob Baker is an ethnomusicologist. ''A what?'' I hear you cry. Well, enclosed air with a pungent smell an ethnomusicologist studies music in relation to decades of human hair and engine grease causing escalator fires; from just culture, so rather like a few lines connecting London termini to major jaunts out into Metro-land for folklorist studies the suburbia-bound commuters; oral and from a few religious-minded if financially dodgy pioneer investment managers written story traditions relating to Crossrail; the history of the world's most extensive underground system (even when a majority is actually above ground) is fascinating to many. This book is a repository of much that is entirely trivial, but is also pretty much thoroughly interestingculture.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910821039</amazonuk>B089CSNFT7

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Julian HollandChristine Brown|title=Railways (Amazing Bucket Showers and Extraordinary Facts)Baby Goats: Volunteering in West Africa|rating=34.5

|summary=How and when did Laurel and Hardy replace In the Duke summer of York (George VI)? They reopened the Romney2008, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway when peacetime resumed, at whose launch the latter had officiated before the War. Whatthis book's author was spending her days working in an office job in the worst that can happen when you travel internationally and arrive on a London goods train with no further destination documents? WellUSA while spending her nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else. Long story short, if you're an unidentifiable Peruvian mummy you can get buried as an unknown corpse before the invoice turns she ended up to prove you were wanted volunteering in BelgiumGhana, West Africa. After so many miles and so much dramaNow coincidentally, in the summer of 2010, itthis review's no surprise odd facts author was spending ''her'' days working in an office job (albeit in the UK) while spending ''her'' nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else, and fun trivia derive from our country's trains'she'' ended up just 3 countries away, volunteering in Sierra Leone, West Africa. This So you can see why, when this book is designed came up, said reviewer was delighted to be an ideal source of quick articles have the opportunity to read and fun mini-essays for use in the smallest roomcritique it.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910821004</amazonuk>171024299X

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rob TempleMourby_Rooms|title=Very British Problems AbroadRooms with a View: The Secret Life of Great Hotels|author=Adrian Mourby

|genre=HumourTravel|summary=MeetAdrian Mourby has given us a flying visit to each of fifty grand hotels, if you haven't alreadyfrom fourteen regions of the world, with the phenomenon hotels in each section being arranged chronologically rather than by region, which helps to give something of the Very British Probleman overall picture. In this format theySo what makes a hotel 'grand'? The first hotel to call itself 'grand're was in Covent Garden in 1774 and it ushered in pithy little comments (the beginning of, ooh, about 140 characters in length, a period when a hotel would be a lifestyle choice rather than a refuge for some reason…) those without friends and detail the minor things family conveniently nearby. The hotels we visit all began life in life that we like nothing more than to inflate to different circumstances and each faced a major factor different set of lifechallenges. They can involve mannersWe begin in the Americas, move to the United Kingdom, staring at things until they mend themselvescircumnavigate Europe, hitting things dittobriefly visit Russia and Turkey then northern Africa, or the fact that nobody apart from you India and I know how to queue properlyAsia. And if the idea hits the world outside our shoresAustralia, then – wellit seems, you certainly have a book full of content regarding our attitude and ineptitude abroaddoes not go for the grand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751558494</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Ben Coates1908745819|title= Why the Dutch are Different: A Journey into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands Surfacing|author=Kathleen Jamie|rating= 45|genre= TravelHistory|summary= Sometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, they tell you ''this one has your name on it''. Mostly we take them at their word, or not, but rarely do we ask them why they thought so unless it turns out that we didn't like the book. That's a rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case, I know Holland in was told why. The blurb speaks of the way everyone doesauthor considering ''an older, less tethered sense of herself.'' Older. Pancakes and windmills and Pot, oh myLess tethered. But itThat's one not a bad description of where I am. Add to that my love of the few European countries I've never lived in for any period natural world, of those aspects of timethe poetic and lyrical that are about style not form, and so substance most of all, about connection. Of course, this book had my name on it. It was written for me. It would have found its way to me eventually. I was intrigued am pleased to know morehave it fall onto my path so quickly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>185788633X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tom Sperlinger1912242052|title= Romeo and Juliet in Palestine: Teaching Under OccupationO Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating= 4.53|genre= AutobiographyArt|summary= Towards ''Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for being ''the end of Tom Sperlinger's first bookperson to walk the mountains alone, not because he says education can open people's eyeshad to for work, as a miner, quarryman, making them aware 'that we make assumptions all of the timeshepherd or pack-horse driver, without even knowing they are assumptionsbut because he wanted to for pleasure and adventure.' ''Romeo His rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, and Juliet in Palestine: Teaching Under Occupationits literary consequences, changed our view of the world'' is a fine example of this belief in learning, an assumption-shattering book that offers a new perspective on Palestinian life not seen on the news or in the papers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782796371</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Keith PartridgeWoolf_Great|title=The Adventure GameGreat Horizon: A Cameraman's 50 Tales from Films at the Edgeof Exploration|author=Jo Woolf|rating= 43.5|genre= Animals and WildlifeHistory|summary=Keith Partridge Jo Woolf has been one compiled a brilliant set of fifty short insights into the world’s leading adventure cameramen for over twenty years. The award winning Touching the Void, Beckoning Silence lives and Human Planet are just achievements of some amazingly brave people. Their fearless journeys have helped us unlock many of the films that have taken him all over mysteries of the earthwildest parts of our world, from the caves and also given us an understanding of Papua New Guinea what it is like to be faced with the summit of Mount Everest. No location has been too dangerous, no environment too wild, most terrible conditions and if you still have ever seen the determination and grit to carry on. This book could be viewed as a climber or explorer in taster which encourages us to seek out and read more about some outrageous position, chances of the most iconic explorers. Their stories are that Keith Partridge was there with his camera. Here Keith discusses the challenges that have faced him in the daring adventures has taken part in, with personalities such as [[:Category:Steve Backshall|Steve Backshall]], [[:Category:Joe Simpson|Joe Simpson]] pretty incredible and Stephen VenablesWoolf does them justice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124311</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon WilcoxHailstone_Berlin|title=Mudlark RiverBerlin in the Cold War: Down the Thames with a Victorian Map |rating=4.5|genre=Travel|summary=Do you think finding a 19th century map would inspire you 1959 to walk the entire length of the Thames? Because that's what Simon Wilcox did. I think there's something impossibly romantic about that, don't you?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993016308</amazonuk>}}{{newreview1966|author=John George Freeman and Ronnie Scott (editor)|title=Three Men and a BradshawAllan Hailstone

|genre=TravelHistory|summary=This book is quite the very time machine, and because of that some of its own history is needed ''Berlin in summary. A year or two ago, our presenter Shaun Sewell was buying some private documents from the descendants of John George Freeman, to complete a set of illustrated travel journals heCold War: 1959-1966''d met with when risking a punt on the first few at auction. He was intent on getting them published since finding them, and seemed contains almost 200 photographs taken by author/photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits to be the first person with that desire since they were first written in the 1870scity during this period. Back then they were well-written, educative and entertaining looks at The images provide an insight into the early days changing nature of the travel industry, when for example piers were novel(ty) ways for the rail companies to justify sending people to the ends of divide between East and West Berlin and a glimpse into life in the country where previously there had been little for them to do. Here then is railwayana, travel and social history, all between two covers. So even if this doesn't find city during the perfectly huge audience of some books, it will certainly raise interest in many householdsCold War.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847947441</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Owen JonesStewart_Marches|title=PathlandsThe Marches|author=Rory Stewart

|genre=TravelHistory|summary= I have lots of walking books. All The Observer quote on the front of them have been bought with a half-baked intention of actually doing the walks described within them… which paperback edition of courseStewart's latest book observes ''This is travel writing at its finest.'' Perhaps, Ibut to call it 'travel writing've only partially succeeded inis to totally under-sell it. This is erudition at its finest. I Stewart has the background to do have some books which I have fully ticked-offthis: he had an international upbringing and followed his father in both the Army and the Foreign Office, and then (to his father's, but most of thembemusement, especially most of the later ones have (at bestshall we say) been inspiration enough to get the boots onbecame an MP. Oh, and he walked 6, but rarely more than once or twice000 miles across Afghanistan in 2002. So many unfinished plansA walk along the Scottish borders should be a doddle by comparison.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184604443X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael PronkoBristow China|title=Beauty and ChaosChina in Drag: Slices and Morsels of Tokyo LifeTravels with a Cross-dresser|author=Michael Bristow

|genre=TravelAutobiography|summary=Adapting Having worked for nine years in Bejing as a Buddhist metaphorjournalist for the BBC, author Michael Pronko declares that 'writing Bristow decided to write about [Tokyo] is like catching fish with a hollow gourdChinese history.' In other wordsHaving been learning the local language for several years, it is an elusive and contradictory place that resists easy conclusions. Anyone who has seen Bristow asked his language teacher for guidance - the Bill Murray film ''Lost language teacher, born in Translation'' will retain the sense early fifties, offered Bristow a compelling picture of a glittering, bewildering place that Westerners wander through life in a daze. A longCommunist China -term resident but still a perpetual outsideradded to that, Pronko is perfectly placed Bristow was greatly surprised to notice the many odd and wonderful aspects of Tokyo life.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00PDH4KVA</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David Greene|title=Midnight find that his language teacher also enjoyed spending his spare time in Siberia: A Train Journey into the Heart of Russia|rating=4ladies clothing.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=It's no mistake soon becomes clear that the cover of my edition of this book tale told here is a photo where the Transimmensely personal -Siberian Railway is horizontal in the frame. It's well known for going east-west, left to right across the map of the largest country by far in the world. 9,288 kilometres from Moscow to the eastern stretches of Russia, it could only be yet also paints a long, thin line across the cover, as it is in our imagination fascinating portrait of it as a form one of transport and a travel destination in its own right. So when this book mentions it as the spine or backbone of Russia a couple of times, thatworld's got to be of a prone Russia – one lying down, not upright or activemost intriguing nations. David Greene, a stalwart of northern American radio journalism, uses this book to see just how active or otherwise Russia and Russians are – and finds their lying down to be quite a definite verdict, as well as a slight indictment. It's no mistake either for this cover to have people in the frame alongside the train carriages, for the people met both riding and living alongside the tracks of the Railway are definitely the ribs of the piece.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846883709</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Horatio ClareHurst_Norfolk|title=Down to the Sea in ShipsOn My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks|author=John Hurst

|genre=TravelArt|summary=Inspired by It was pure serendipity: after a chance read of ''Moby Dick''five-hour drive, we were, the aptly named Horatio Clare applies to be a writer in residence for a shipping company. They acceptannoyingly, and he travels left with them on two voyages - one from Felixstowe an hour to Los Angeles, and fill in Blakeney before we could have the other from Antwerp keys to Montrealour holiday cottage.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099526298</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mike McIntyre and Chris Brinkley (narrator)|title=The Kindness of Strangers: Penniless Across America|rating=4.5|genre=Travel|summary=In 1994 Mike McIntyre There was a thirty-seven-year-old journalist with a secret: he was frightened. There were specific fearsan art exhibition in the church hall, but what it boiled down to was that he was frightened of life so we went in - and then there was found a memory. He remembered - with some shame - not stopping for a hitchhiker with a gas can in display of the desertmost gorgeous pictures. It was almost I'd cheerfully have bought every one and hung them on a whim that he decided to cross America, from San Francisco in California to Cape Fear in North Carolina, which might sound like a great adventureour walls, but McIntyre decides thought that I would have to make do it without money - to be completely reliant on the kindness of strangers. He was confronting his own fears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00PWMVWTY</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Alexander McCall Smith|title=A Work of Beauty: Alexander McCall Smith's Edinburgh|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary=It might be simplest if I begin by telling you what this book is ''not''. It's not a book of beautiful photographs (with some supporting text) of the places you'll almost certainly want to visit if you're visiting Edinburgh as a tourist. If that's what you want then there are dozens of such books available all over the city at a fraction of the cost couple of greetings cards when I saw ''A Work of BeautyOn My Way: Norfolk Coastal Walks''. This might have the look of a coffee table book (and I couldn't resist buying it would certainly look impressive there) but it has a lot more depth and interest than you might expect. This is a book of Alexander McCall Smith's Edinburgh, the city he walks around every day, constantly seeing something new, something else with a story to tell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1902419863</amazonuk>