The Kingdom By The SeaAfter eleven years as an American living in London, the renowned travel writer Paul Theroux set out to travel clockwise around the coast of Great Britain to find out what the British were really like. The result is this perceptive, hilarious record of the journey. Whether in Cornwall or Wales, Ulster or Scotland, the people he encountered along the way revealed far more of themselves than they perhaps intended to display to a stranger. Theroux

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Samuel begins to see the town is not the haven he hoped: riven by political infighting

Love & Olive Oil is an engaging (and delicious

His work is finely honed

sardonic control

Freedom’s Detective reveals the story of this complex hero and his central role in a long-lost chapter of American history

foul-tempered hellhound

A haunted lighthouse

articulate men

The last thing you hear before you die

In this meticulous and absorbing account