Books published by Signal Books Ltd

In 1927, Paul Morand -- a French diplomat and noted European author -- made two extended trips to the Caribbean, Latin America and the American South. Published in 1929, his travel account begins as a diary about his experience of Venezuela, Curacao, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Haiti, Trinidad, Jamaica and Cuba and ends with a lengthy essay on Mexico.

Biography of Oxford Classics don who led intriguing life.

The Stranger's Homecoming is a love story to Portugal, but also a poignant tale of exile

Wear a Mask!, echoing Anthony Fauci's memorable plea for collective action, provides a striking visual record of how Oxford's population reacted to an unprecedented public health crisis and turned face masks into a powerful expression of identity.

What this book reveals is that even in one house, this wealth fuelled an extraordinary range of political and cultural activity. Maristow House, as Malcolm Cross explains, remains a portal through which to appreciate economic and social change on a much larger canvas.

A recovered lost classic of women's travel writing: Atkinson travelled more than 40,000 miles through the unknown wastes of Siberia and Central Asia

A celebration of the sea in poetry and painting

Vickers present previously unpublished essays that offer new perspectives on the underlying nature of pan-Albanianism, its aspirations and the post-Cold War dynamics of the Albanian world. These remain serious, unresolved problems in the region at the present time.

Where did the custom of duelling originate, and why did it spread so quickly all over Europe and the Americas?

Comprehensive history of Northern Albania

The twentieth anniversary of the Countryside & Rights of Way (CRoW) Act in 2020 provides a good opportunity to look back on the doughty band of campaigners who fought for so long to give ramblers their cherished right to roam.

Stretching from the Volga River to the Caspian Sea, the Great Steppe is a vast region as mysterious today as it was a thousand years ago.

Amusing take on Oxford by award-winning comic writer Richard O. Smith and Korky Paul, illustrator of the multi-million selling Winnie the Witch series.

Memoir of a British Officer who served as a secret operative during WWII in German-occupied Balkans that paints a vivid picture of Albania as it was torn apart by the Nazis and Communist partisans.

Humorous look at life in Oxford including bizarre university rituals and cycling incidents

Quite Quintessential tells the story of a journey as epic as it was arbitrary and casts light on the strange world of obsessive walking.

This book tells the story of today's Spanish provinces of Valencia, Castello and Alacant (Alicante), with their profound Moorish legacy.

The first major travel book by a Westerner to explore Duterte's Philippines.

The significance of the last Maharajah and his statue relates both to the past, when the Sikhs had their own sovereign kingdom, and the present as modern Sikhs find their identity in contemporary Britain.

In this remarkable narrative of travel and cultural history, Oxford historian and author James Pettifer makes his own philosophical journey as a visiting scholar at Princeton University, where Springsteen's music becomes a metaphor for the nature of New Jersey society.

The poems range across a number of topics related to marriage: parenthood, family, friendship, intimacy, divorce and bereavement, and refer from time to time to marriages in literature, operas, and the Old Testament

In The Eleanor Crosses, Decca Warrington tells this tale of survival and continuity over seven centuries, and also offers a new perspective on the remarkable life and death of the nowadays little-known queen whose legacy they are -- Eleanor of Castile, the woman who won the heart of one of England's most forceful and charismatic kings

A thriller novel

Vignettes of travel writing from around the globe in 26 A - Z stories, peopled with eccentric characters

Not a self-help guide but a candid, confessional memoir about mental illness that intersperses poetry and prose