Edward Stanford Travel Writing 2024

Award for Outstanding Contribution to Travel Writing. Includes Stanford Travel Book of the Year and Fiction with a Sense of Place.

Updated September 19, 2024
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A stranger in your own city : travels in the Middle East's long war
Abdul-Ahad, Ghaith
Paper Book
SELECTED BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND DAUNTS BOOKS AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 WINNER OF THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 ONE OF PROSPECT'S POLITICS & REPORTAGE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023 'Exquisite . . . A genuine, melancholy...
The covenant of water : a novel
Verghese, Abraham
Paper Book
OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * SUBJECT OF A SIX-PART SUPER SOUL PODCAST SERIES HOSTED BY OPRAH WINFREY From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in...
The Britannias : an island quest
Albinia, Alice
Paper Book
The Britannias tells the story of Britain's islands and how they are woven into its collective cultural psyche. From Neolithic Orkney to modern-day Thanet, Alice Albinia explores the furthest reaches of Britain's island topography, once known (wrote Pliny) by the collective term,...
Gathering place : winter pilgrimage through changing times
Colwell, Mary
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 'Deeply poetic.' CAROLINE LUCAS MP 'A masterpiece of storytelling.' NICK MAYHEW-SMITH 'Mary Colwell is a candle of open-minded curiosity.' PATRICK LAURIE 'An unforgettable story.'...
The granite kingdom : a Cornish journey
Hannigan, Tim
Paper Book
A fascinating, lyrical account of an east-west walk across Britain's westernmost and most mysterious region. A distant and exotic Celtic land, domain of tin-miners, pirates, smugglers and evocatively named saints, somehow separate from the rest of our island... ...
High caucasus
Parfitt, Tom
Paper Book
Dust child : a novel
Nguyẽ̂n, Phan Qué̂ Mai
Paper Book
Finalist for the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. From the bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a richly poetic and suspenseful saga about two Vietnamese sisters, an American veteran, and an Amerasian man whose lives intersect in surprising ways, set during and after the...
The book of fire
Lefteri, Christy
Paper Book
Internationally bestselling author Christy Lefteri returns with a dazzling new novel, about one family struggling to recover from trauma, set against the backdrop of the forest fires of Greece.
An astronomer in love
Laurain, Antoine
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2024 SHORLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD VIKING AWARD FOR FICTION 2024 'Perfect for the poolside or sitting outside a café with a pastis and olives' The Times ...
Roman stories
Lahiri, Jhumpa
Paper Book
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORKER, NPR * The first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and master of the form since her number one New York Times best seller Unaccustomed Earth * Rome--metropolis and monument, suspended between past and...
Wounded Tigris : a river journey through the cradle of civilisation
McCarron, Leon
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARDS 2024 'As epic as it is engaging' Tom Holland 'Jaunty, highly informative and ultimately sobering' New York Review of Books 'A fine book... Leon McCarron's...
Flight : explore the secret routes of the skies from a bird's-eye view
Craig, Mya-Rose
Paper Book
Look around you. Whether you live in a city or the countryside, whether you're standing in a field or peering out of a window. If you wait a few minutes the chances are that you'll see a bird. But did you know that many of these creatures go on epic adventures every single year? This is...

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