For sale in CIS only! It starts with a mishap, then a cover-up. Before he knows it, Dominic Seeley, an editor in a London publishing house, is caught in an ever-widening spiral of deception – and falling for a girl way out of his league. Actress Nic...

For sale in CIS only! "There are four roads leading to Santiago, which combine to form a single road". So begins "The Pilgrim's Guide", the world's first guidebook. Written early in the twelfth century by Benedictine monks, it served travellers tak...

For sale in CIS only! Famous for its cemeteries and monuments, Flanders has witnessed war and bloodshed on a colossal scale. Divided between Belgium, the Netherlands and France, this low-lying expanse of land has also known religious conflict and li...

For sale in CIS only! Why not? After all, no-one had ever done it before. It would be one of the longest of all overland journeys-half-way round the world, from the English Channel to Singapore. They knew that several expeditions had already tried i...

For sale in CIS only! Frankfurt is a city that punches well above its weight. Despite its diminutive size – it has fewer than a million inhabitants – it is a financial centre of global importance, named alongside metropolises and capitals such as To...

For sale in CIS only! In July 1936 insurgent Spanish troops organized a military coup to oust the elected Republican government in Madrid. The rebel generals expected to force a quick, clean regime change but they failed. The botched uprising turned...

For sale in CIS only! The two decades after Waterloo marked the great age of foreign fortune hunters in England. Each year brought a new influx of impecunious Continental noblemen to the world's richest country, and the more brides they carried off,...

For sale in CIS only! We all have our image of the French Riviera: the azure blue of the sea and the swimming pools; the dark green of the pines and the swaying palms; the yachts and the sports cars on the Corniche roads; the hovering croupiers raki...

For sale in CIS only! 26.6.2008. 9.00 hours. Cloud level has risen sufficiently to see the heights of the island of Hoy. The margin of existence that I had noticed in North Ronaldsay, with its apparent make do approach to the problem of sea encroach...

For sale in CIS only! "Looking out to sea I whispered a farewell prayer to the wind: Help me to be content to pass by even the most beautiful places without wanting to remain in them for long or to keep them for myself". Tientsin in north-eastern Ch...