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Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets, and waterways of Istanbul - the city of his birth and the home of his imagination.

You Can't See Them. But They Can See You. This forest isn't charted on any map. Every car breaks down at its treeline. Mina's is no different. Left stranded, she is forced into the dark woodland only to find a woman shouting, urging mina to run to a concrete bunker. As the door slams behind her...

Join John Rogers as he ventures out into an uncharted London like a redbrick Indiana Jones in search of the lost meaning of our metropolitan existence. Nursing two reluctant knees and a can of Stella, he perambulates through the seasons seeking adventure in our city’s remote and forgotten...

Ireland’s Instagram sensation Meditations for the Anxious Mind takes us on a trip around Ireland of the likes you’ve never seen before, from the trolley-filled Liffey to the glamour of Navan. Ever been curious about Limerick’s ancient mysteries or wondered what secrets Drogheda might hold?...

Bloomsbury presents Much Ado About Mothing by James Lowen, read by Max Dowler. James Lowen narrates a year-long quest to see Britain's rarest and more remarkable moths. Although mostly unseen by us, moths are everywhere. And their capacity to delight astounds. Inspired by a revelatory encounter...

Encircling London like a noose, the M25 is a road to nowhere, but when Iain Sinclair sets out to walk this asphalt loop - keeping within the 'acoustic footprints' - he is determined to find out where the journey will lead him. Stumbling upon converted asylums, industrial and retail parks, ring-fenced government institutions and lost villages, Sinclair discovers a Britain of the fringes, a landscape consumed by developers. London Orbital charts this extraordinary trek and round trip of the soul, revealing the country as you've never seen it before.

"Pardon, ich bin Bahnkunde!" Wir lieben sie eigentlich, unsere Bahn. Doch leider liebt sie uns nicht. Schmerzhaft authentische und trotzdem heitere Bahngeschichten aus 25 Jahren - von jemandem, der verrückt genug war, jede Woche zwischen Köln und Berlin zu pendeln. Zugausfälle, Böschungsbrand, Personen im Gleis, defekte Klimaanlagen, Umleitungen - in den fünfundzwanzig Jahren, die Reinhard Rohn zwischen Köln und Berlin pendelte, hat er fast alles erlebt, was man sich an Bahnerlebnissen denken kann - und auch noch ein wenig mehr.