Tim Hannigan is Cornwall born and bred and, like many of us brought up in ‘picturesque’ tourist destinations, he spent time working in the...

Will Buckingham’s book Hello, Stranger: How We Find Connection in a Disconnected World defies categorization. It flows so comfortably betwe...

A book that changed my life is A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter. It is her memoir of her journey and year spent in Spitsberge...

Friends sent me Simon Armitage’s Walking Home , saying they hoped this tale of walking the 256-mile Pennine Way would help ‘lift yo...

From time to time my book collection has been significantly enlivened by obscure gems from old library stock, made available to the public...