A Book with a View: writing inspired by world landmarks and landscapes gives London's librarians the chance to recommend a selection of quirky fiction and non-fiction inspired by local and world architecture: on this page you'll find stories in rural settings, where people and the landscape are vivid personalities. Other choices are
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ISBN: 9780349116037
A wonderfully quirky read, taking you to places you only hear about on BBC Radio 4's shipping forecast
-- BrentCountry of origin: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9780140281118
This is a vivid and compelling account of the overland trip from Egypt to South Africa by acclaimed travel writer Paul Theroux. Despite his obvious frustration with the lack of progress and all too often apparent corruption throughout the African continent, this is a passionate and amusing account of the hardships experienced during his physical and emotional journey.
-- BromleyCountry of origin: South Africa
The Deleted world - Tomas Transtromer
ISBN: 9781904634485
Wonderful new translations of selected work by Sweden’s best known poet. Bleak snowy landscapes expose the ‘mysterious and unforgivable’. Translated by Robin Robertson
-- RichmondCountry of origin: other
Edge of the Orison: in the traces of John Clare's journey out of Essex - Iain Sinclair
ISBN: 0141012757
Sinclair retraces the poet John Clare's four day, 90 mile walk from the asylum in Essex he had escaped from to his fenland village home - A fascinating read.
-- KingstonCountry of origin: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9780330487153
An Indian writer from Trinidad to stay in a Wiltshire village and observes changes in himself as well as those in the landscape around him.
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Field days: an anthology of poetry - Angela King (ed.)
ISBN: 9781870098731
An anthology of works from over ninety poets taking as its theme that the land and our relationship with it.
Country of origin: other
Glastonbury: an oral history of the music - John Shearlaw
ISBN: 9780091897635
This book gives a real honest insight to the Glastonbury festival from the people who make it happen. With plenty of contribution from big stars who have performed at this event, it's a real must for those who have attended and will make those who haven’t yet, want to go.
-- City of LondonCountry of origin: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9780330441148
Set in Shetland, and very atmospheric. This book steps behind the usual tourist view of the island and unpicks the tensions of living in a small and isolated community with extreme weather and a rugged landscape
-- Kensington and ChelseaCountry of origin: United Kingdom
Sea room - Adam Nicolson
ISBN: 9780006532019
A biography of three Hebridean Islands written by the author who inherited them on his 21st birthday. He portrays the life of the Shiants describing their landscape, history and their rich geological flower and wildlife as well as the changes to the harsh lives of the human inhabitants in a fascinating history of this remote part of the British isles.
-- Kensington and ChelseaCountry of origin: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9780689872778
An exciting and original thriller that cover environmental and genetic issues. It centres on Mira, who lives in a remote community in Scotland. Her quiet life is shattered when she sees a stranger shot and killed.
-- HarrowCountry of origin: United Kingdom
