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16 Must-Read Books For Armchair Travellers
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items Reading the right book can be as good as a holiday (which is good news, because right now, proper holidays feel more out of reach than ever for many of us). Here are sixteen must-read books for armchair travellers, so you can take a trip without havi...
An annual summer vacation feels like a dream that’s out of reach for many of us at the moment – but Emily Henry is the current queen of escapist reads that let you live your dreams on the page. In You And Me On Vacation, Poppy and Alex are two very d...
You and Me on Vacation: Henry, Emily
Island On The Edge Of The World is just as bright and colourful as its cover. In this delightful story, four very different women come together to do the impossible: find a lost child, and a missing mother, in Haiti. On the teeming streets of Port-au...
Island on the Edge of the World: Deborah Rodriguez
When Eva Reddy’s Trip Of A Lifetime begins, Eva’s life is falling apart – she’s just turned fifty, she’s just been fired, and she’s just received a message from an anonymous friend revealing her husband’s infidelity – when she receives a phone call f...
Eva Reddy's Trip of a Lifetime: Funny & Uplifting
When a floundering fashion influencer discovers that her all-expenses-paid vacation at a Canadian resort isn’t booked for the week she arrived, she has no choice but to take up residence at the only AirBNB available in a small fishing village nearby....
The Catch by Amy Lea, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
The Breaking will draw you into the murky world of eco-tourism. Are the white travellers who impose their righteousness on Thai elephant trainers really any better than those who pay to have their photos taken with the animals? This is the ethical ti...
The Breaking: Gold, Irma - 9781925227819
Calypso is “beach reading for people who detest beaches, required reading for those who loathe small talk and love a good tumour joke” – perfect for armchair travellers, then, who don’t want to get actual sand in their shoes. The essays in this colle...
Calypso by David Sedaris, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
The memoir Wild follows Strayed’s 1,100-mile hike on the Pacific Crest Trail, which she undertook after the traumatic death of her young mother in the mid-90s. Strayed sets out on this grueling trek almost entirely unprepared; she had essentially no ...
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail - Barnes & Noble
The protagonist of Less worries that he is the “first homosexual to ever grow old”. He finds himself suddenly single, when his long-time fuck-buddy dumps him to marry a far more eligible (and age appropriate) bachelor. Arthur Less decides that he mus...
Less (Pulitzer Prize Winner) by Andrew Sean Greer, Paperback
The One-Hundred-Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared begins with Allan Karlsson sitting in his retirement home, contemplating the impending celebration of his one-hundredth birthday. Frustrated by the prohibition policy of the home...
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and ...
The family at the heart of Wild Dark Shore has been living on Shearwater Island for six years (a fictional location that Charlotte McConaghy based closely on the real Macquarie Island, about 1,500km south of Australia’s southernmost point). Grief ove...
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy - Books-A-Million
Mad’s father ran out on her, her mother, and their family farm in Tennessee twenty years ago. She thinks there’s not much more to the story… until a man shows up at her market stall, explaining that he’s her half-brother. As Run For The Hills begins,...
Run for the Hills a book by Kevin Wilson - Bookshop.org US
A movie star invites her friends to join her on a private Greek island… and then there’s a murder. That’s basically the premise of The Fury. It’s a locked room mystery on a private island in a gorgeous location with glamourous characters. The charact...
The Fury book by Alex Michaelides - ThriftBooks
It’s hard not to feel envious of journalists that get plum assignments – like travel writers who get an all-expenses-paid luxury cruise across the picturesque North Sea… but your jealousy won’t last long when you read The Woman In Cabin 10. Everythin...
The Woman in Cabin 10 - Ruth Ware - Apple Books
Each year, thousands of people undertake a pilgrimage to a garden in the north-east of Japan, one of the areas worst affected by the 2011 tsunami. There stands a phone box, the Wind Phone, that anyone is free to use to speak to loved ones who are los...
The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World by Laura Imai Messina
Have you ever dreamed of going off the grid? Escaping somewhere beautiful, with a bunch of likeminded people, and working on yourself away from the stresses and pressures of everyday life? Out Of Breath is a novel about what happens when that dream t...
Books - Out of Breath: Anna Snoekstra - Amazon.com
Five Found Dead is an intriguing meta mystery that will whisk you into the world of an Agatha Christie novel. A crime fiction writer and his sister investigate a murder that takes place on board the Orient Express. The cabin next to theirs’ is covere...
Five Found Dead: A Novel|Paperback - Sulari Gentill - Barnes & Noble