Couchsurfing? Surely a sofa would sink on the open sea? Couchsurfing is a global community of over a million people in 232 countries that offers couches, beds and body-sized horizontal surfaces via the internet for fellow members to bunk down on for the night. Couchsurfing is everywhere, from Kazakhstan, where there are124 empty couches for the daring traveller, to Antartica where 30 cold ...

Etiquette is a revisionist business. This work explains how to behave with ease and style in various social situations, covering man management, what to wear, dining out, socialising and entertaining at home, getting ahead at work, etiquette for social occasions, conversational no-nos and avoiding dreaded social sins.

75 essays written by cult writers and journalists from both sides of the Atlantic, Hg2 Life gives you the inside track on everything you should know and your parents wished you didn't...

Hg2 Milan gets under the city's veneer of snobbery and reveals all the latest hotspots where the out-of-towner fashionista (and entourage) can hob-nob with those in the know or escape the crowds for some low-key luxe.

London is already covered by many guides but Hg2 London looks beneath the surface to show the reader where the city's most stylish, hip and 'in' locations currently are and displays an indepth knowledge of London's finest, from the smartest hotels to the underground clubs