The long awaited new edition of a classic Robbins novel that is still as fresh now as when originally published.

Examines the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man, who in 1992 walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later. This book explores the obsession which leads some people to explore the outer limits of self, leave civilization behind and seek enlightenment through solitude.

'I hereby bet Tony Hawks the sum of One Hundred Pounds that he cannot hitchhike round the circumference of Ireland, with a fridge, within one calendar month.' A foolhardy attempt to win a drunken bet led to Tony Hawks having one of the most unforgettable experiences of his life. This work follows the fearless pair as they battle towards Dublin.

Features the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat.

When Earth is destroyed to make way for a Hyperspatial express route, Arthur Dent discovers that space is big, as he is taken on a hair-raising tour of the Galaxy and its very strange inhabitants, by his friend Ford Perfect. This is a new edition which incorporates the fifth part of the trilogy.

*A collection of personal essays - surprising, disarming, heartbreakingly funny - from the #1 bestselling writer Time named America's Favorite Humorist.

A one-volume edition charting Arthur Dent's odyssey through space, comprising: The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy ; The Restaurant at the End of the Universe ; Life, the Universe and Everything ; and So long, and Thanks for all the Fish .

* A brilliant new collection of essays from the number 1 bestselling writer named by TIME magazine as America's Favorite Humorist

A work by the author who twists everyday life into powerful, and sometimes terrifying fantasies: Turtles, Fingersmiths, The Mildenhall, Treasure, even the spooky story of the man who can see without eyes.

Sometimes you have to leave your life behind for a while to see it and really live freshly again. Here, a woman follows the pull of the moon to find her way home. Sometimes humorous, sometimes heartbreaking, always honest, this is a novel about the journey of one woman - and about the issues of the heart that transforms the lives of all women.

Tells the tale of the adventures of a hitch-hiker and his girlfriend on their quest for the real Australia. As the couple hitch their way around, they encounter a cross-section of Aussie society. This work contains tales of some of the country's idiosyncratic characters, from the grizzled Aboriginal elder to an amphetamine-swallowing train driver.

Georgie Jutland has lost her way. Living with a fisherman she doesn't love, feeling alienated from her neighbours, she spends her nights in a blur of vodka and pointless loitering in cyberspace. Until one morning, in the pre-dawn gloom, she looks up from her computer screen to see a shadow on the beach below her. Luther Fox, the local poacher.

An autobiography of Woody Guthrie, founder of modern American folk music. This book presents a cynical, earthy and tragic account of his life in an Oklahoma oil-boom town, of the Depression that followed, and of his subsequent travels in, on, and under trains, in stolen cars and on his feet, round an America going rotten from the top downwards.

The narrator of 'The Society of Others' is an alienated young man who sees no meaning in life. He doesn't even see the point of getting out of bed in the morning. To get his family off his back, he embarks on an aimless hitchhiking adventure around Europe. But his journey soon turns into an orgy of violence.

A classic travel book by an internationally bestselling author

Anxiety and tempers flaring, young lovers Rex and Saskia pull in at a service station to refuel. As soon as they stop the tension is relieved. Rex buries two coins in a crack at the base of a fence post as a secret sign of their love: Saskia goes off to buy a couple of cold drinks and vanishes.

In 1983, Ma Jian turned 30 and was overwhelmed by the desire to escape the confines of his life in Beijing. Here, he writes about his disillusion with the Communist system and an extraordinary journey that he made around China in search of himself and his country.