Titoli in Europa

As the nation's oldest serving detectives, we know more about London than almost anyone. After all, we've been walking its streets and impulsively arresting its citizens for decades. Who better to take you through its less savoury side? We'll be chatting about odd buildings, odder characters...

For John Connell, the lambing season on his County Longford farm begins in the autumn. In the sheep shed, he surveys the dozen females in his care and contemplates the work ahead as the season slowly turns to winter, then spring. The twelve sheep have come into his life at just the right moment...

She thought she'd found her lost past, but did she uncover all the secrets? Melodie returns to her mother's house in Corfu for the first time since inheriting it. Only, she discovers it isn't empty. She finds someone has been living there; a girl who claims the property is hers. Dismissing the...

Can a lost past lead to a beautiful future? A passionate love story – a heart wrenching discovery. Melodie Pelletier is drawn back to the idyllic island of Corfu, a place bursting with wonderful family memories. She visits the popular fishing village of Agios Stefanos, a place with an...

Venice waits for you. It is the home of the artist, the writer, adventurer or madman (depending on how you look at it) for thousands of years. Their spirit abides, Marco Polo, Da Vinci, Shakespeare, Christie… haunting the canals, which demand exploration and defy explorers.

The unmissable conclusion to Tim Leach's critically acclaimed historical adventure series set in the Roman Empire. 180 AD. North of the Wall, Sarmatian warrior Kai and his adopted tribe, the Votadini, struggle for survival, cast into unfamiliar lands by Roman reprisals. When news arrives that an...

A travelogue exploring the life and work of George Orwell through the places he lived, worked and wrote Following in the footsteps of his literary hero, researcher and historian Oliver Lewis set out to visit all the places to have inspired and been lived in by George Orwell. Over three years he...

A family reunited after a twenty-year estrangement, will discover secrets that change their lives forever... Gabriella Jacques, is happy to be back in her childhood home, Villa Espoir in the South of France ready to embrace fresh experiences with friends new and old and to heal some deep family...

At the school gate, when she accidentally kissed one new friend on the nose and called another a 'beautiful man-horse', Rachael realised that small-town France could hardly be more different to beach-side Australia. The smell of cigarettes replaced the tang of bone-broth and sprouted sourdough...

Icelanders believe in elves. Why does that make you laugh?, asks Nancy Marie Brown, in this wonderfully quirky exploration of our interaction with nature. Looking for answers in history, science, religion, and art—from ancient times to today—Brown finds that each discipline defines what is real and unreal, natural and supernatural, demonstrated and theoretical, alive and inert. Each has its own way of perceiving and valuing the world around us. And each discipline defines what an Icelander might call an elf.

On November 11, 1943, the Nazis invaded Cansano, forcing its two thousand inhabitants to make a tough decision—fight and be killed or sent to a POW camp, stay behind as servants to the Nazis, or move into the unforgiving mountains of Abruzzo while the Nazis used their village as a home base. Giovanni Ruscitti's family chose the latter and spent the next few months living in horrendous winter conditions in the rugged mountains. When the war ended, they returned to a village so ravaged by the Nazis that, today, the town has less than 200 citizens and remains in a dilapidated state.

Mairead Small Staid’s debut, The Traces, is a work of memoir and criticism that explores the nature of happiness in art, literature, and philosophy, structured around a season spent in Italy and a reading of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. Poised between plummeting depressions, the author considers the intellectual merits of joy and the redeeming promise offered by the beauty, both natural and manmade, that surrounds her. 

For over four decades, Cameron McNeish has chronicled Scotland’s majestic landscapes and the outdoor communities who inhabit them. While much has changed, especially in terms of conservation and access, the hills themselves remain little altered, as do the reasons people visit them. In this...

Superstitions only survive if people believe in them... Renowned academic Dr Sparling seeks help with his project on a remote Irish village. Historical researchers Ben and Chloe are thrilled to be chosen – until they arrive... The village is isolated and forgotten. There is no record of its...

"Det er en myte, at solen altid skinner i Provence, som den nobelprisbelønnede digter Fréderic Mistral kaldte for solens rige. Det er en myte, at der ikke kan falde sne i et subtropisk klima, og at man på disse breddegrader ikke risikerer at opleve en kulde, som bider i kinder og næse. Hvis man vil elske Provence, denne mangfoldige sydfranske provins, må man lære også at elske eller i det mindste tolerere et klima, som undertiden kan være mere omskifteligt og lunefuldt, end man forestiller sig.

Aage Krarup Nielsens rejsedagbog fra 1932 giver os et unikt indblik i det nyfødte stalinistiske Sovjetunionens udformning, de ensomme bjerge i Kaukasus og Iran i mellemkrigstiden. Han møder alle mulige forskellige mennesker på sin vej fra Moskva til Persepolis og roder sig indimellem ud, hvor han næsten ikke kan bunde. Bogen tegner et billede af lynindustrialiseringen i Sovjetunionen og de mennesker, der led under den, og af de gamle traditioner og dybe livsglæde, der overlever selv det mest ekstreme regimeskift.

Velkommen om bord på det gode skib Æfnitýr, hvis besætning består af skipperen Lasse, skipperinden Malene og minimatroserne Sebastian på fem år og Marie på to. I Sluserne åbner for nye eventyr følger vi familien på deres fi re måneder lange rejse ad Europas vandveje gennem Holland, Frankrig, Luxembourg og Tyskland. Turen går til myldrende storbyer og solbeskinnede vinmarker, men snor sig også ad mørke tunneler, langs dybe skove og endda gennem folks private baghaver - og ikke mindst gennem et utal af sluser.

Der gemmer sig meget historie og kultur i mad, uanset hvor i verden man sætter sig til bords. Det er imidlertid svært at finde noget sted, der er lige så rigt på både, kultur, historie og skøn mad som Rom. Madskribent og kulturhistoriker Andreas Viestad inviterer på middag i Rom og fortæller samtidig byens vidunderlige historie med stikord fra det italienske køkken. Bogen er en herlig måde at lære om Italiens historie på en flydende og hyggelig måde.

Den berejste forfatter Lis Andersen havde egentlig ingen planer om at besøge Færøerne. Men skæbnen ville det anderledes, og i denne bog kan du læse hendes bjergtagende beretning om mødet med klippeøerne i det nordlige Atlanterhav, hvor beboerne kun kan føre deres planer ud i livet, hvis vejret tillader det ... Lis Andersen (1918-2001) var forfatter, globetrotter, fysioterapeut og naturterapeut. Som barn rejste hun rundt i verden med sin familie på sejlskibet Monsunen, og det lagde grunden for et langt livs rejselyst.

Den unge chilener José Andersen tager den lange tur over Atlanterhavet til det høje nord for at undersøge den del af sin slægt, der stammer fra Norge. Gennem Josés øjne oplever vi det norske samfund og dets borgere på godt og ondt. Vi møder overklassedamen, der foretrækker latin lovers, en flok lige lovligt muntre danske murere på en byggeplads samt en lang række andre skøre personligheder. Alt imens forsøger José at finde sin familie og sin egen plads i dette fremmede samfund.