* Charley Boorman's brand-new adventure for 2009 - backed by a major six-part series on BBC 2

Kevin McCloud shows us how to experience the highs - and the lows - of a grand tour through France, Germany, Italy, Greece and Turkey.

Explores nostalgia, identity, eccentricity, gin drinking and occasional violence.

* A brand new travel adventure from bestselling author Charley Boorman

Records brief glimpses and fleeting encounters, celebrating the people who helped spark the author's view of the world and mould her responses. This book presents a range of human experience: children playing, a homeless man in Manhattan and a lascivious taxi-driver. It also features celebrated figures, from President Truman to Peter OToole.

A companion to Don't Run, Whatever You Do , in which the author encounters ravenous lions, stampeding elephants and lovesick rhinos. It recounts his adventures in a private section of South Africa's famous Kruger National Park and in Botswana's Okavango Delta, where desert animals from the Kalahari make their homes next to aquatic creatures.

Ever since Paul Theroux first embarked in London on the first train of his Great Railway Bazaar, railways have been a rich source for the best travel writing. These days, with our awareness of the global warming implications of endless air travel and the opportunity to jump on a train at magnificent St Pancras and be whisked straight to the continent, train travel has assumed a new importance and

* A charming, first-person celebration of England and Englishness by our foremost politician-turned-writer

After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson took the decision to move back to the USA. Before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire, he took one last trip around the UK, and in this book, he turns an affectionate but laconic eye on his adopted country.

The Ultimate illustrated Book of Hidden England. Taken from Candida Lycett Green's regular column of the last 17 years in The Oldie magazine, 'Unwrecked England' is timeless England, untouched by '60s and '70s developers and planners. In this book, Candida, who has inherited her great appreciation of England from her father, Sir John Betjeman, celebrates 100 of her favourite lesser-known places ..

Part eulogy, part history, part travelogue, the author goes in search of the best snow on the planet. Along the way he explains the extraordinary hold this commonplace phenomenon has over us, and reveals the ongoing drama of our relationship with it.

Explores our ideas of the wild. This book also tells the story of a friendship, and of a loss. It mixes history, memory and landscape in a strange and beautiful evocation of wildness and its vital importance.

Australia has more things that can kill you than anywhere else. Nevertheless, Bill Bryson journeyed to the country and promptly fell in love with it. The people are cheerful, their cities are clean, the beer is cold and the sun nearly always shines.

Bill Bryson shoulders his backpack, keeps a tight hold on his wallet and heads for Europe. He retraces his travels as a student twenty years earlier with caustic hilarity and his own unique brand of humour. Born in Des Moines, Iowa, Bill Bryson lived in North Yorkshire for many years. First published in 1991 by Secker & Warburg.

A second take of the very best of Will Self's columns for the Independent on the oddities of place, with Ralph Steadman's trademark illustrations.

Radio 4 Today presenter and national treasure John Humphrys' funny and engaging memoir of building a home in Greece with his son Christopher.

Tells us about the house in the Tramuntana hills of Mallorca that captured the author's heart, the neighbours that became friends, and those that didn't, the hills and wildlife that enchanted her, the building work that nearly broke her and, crucially, the dog that found her, and changed every single one of her best laid plans.

For the Seventies child, summer holidays meant being crammed into a car with Grandma and heading to the coast. With just a tent for a home and a bucket for the necessities, we would set off on new adventures each year stoically resolving to enjoy ourselves. This memoir is a reminder of just what it was like during summer holidays.

Britain's best-loved comic genius Stephen Fry turns his celebrated wit and insight to unearthing the real America as he travels across the continent in his black taxicab. Stephen's account of his adventures is filled with his unique humour, insight and warmth in the fascinating book that orginally accompanied his journey for the BBC1 series.

If you're wondering what Chris Stewart did before he and Ana moved to their Spanish farm, here's one of the answers. He took to the sea, landing a job as skipper for the summer, sailing around the Greek islands. It was his dream job - and there was just one tiny problem. He hadn't ever sailed before and had not the foggiest how to start.