Books published by The Armchair Traveller at the Bookhaus

Veil, one of France's most beloved political figures, is admired for her personal and political courage,and enjoys respect from all political spectrums.

Puglia is the heel stretching down from the spur of the Italian boot. It boasts beautiful landscapes, Romanesque cathedrals, Gothic castles and a wealth of Baroque architecture. This introduction to Apulian history is the first comprehensive historical survey of the region in English and provides an enlightening, readable overview of the region.

Full of fascinating details and written with extraordinary sensitivity, Walking Pepys's London is an unmissable exploration into the places that made the greatest English diarist of all time.

November 1925: In search of health and sun, the writer D. H. Lawrence arrives on the Italian Riviera with his wife, Frieda, and is exhilarated by the view of the sparkling Mediterranean from his rented villa, set amid olives and vines. But over the next six months, Frieda will be fatally attracted to their landlord, a dashing Italian army officer. This incident of infidelity influenced Lawrence to write two short stories, "Sun" and "The Virgin and the Gypsy," in which women are drawn to earthy, muscular men, both of which prefigured his scandalous novel Lady Chatterley's Lover. In DH Lawrence in Italy, Owen reconstructs the drama leading up to the creation of one of the most controversial novels of all time by drawing on the unpublished letters and diaries of Rina Secker, the Anglo-Italian wife of Lawrence's publisher. In addition to telling the story of the origins of Lady Chatterley, DH Lawrence in Italy explores Lawrence's passion for all things Italian, tracking his path to the Riviera from Lake Garda to Lerici, Abruzzo, Capri, Sicily, and Sardinia.

Both fascinating and extremely revealing, this is an intimate account of power and the building at its core. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the nature of British politics.

When the author, a former foreign correspondent, bought a house in Umbria, she knew that buying her dream home did not mean that life would become a dream. This book describes the journey of making Umbria her home.

Woodsworth lovingly recounts vivid details of life in Provence, providing a welcome antidote to the typical rose-tinted, romantic view of the a perennially sunny destination for tourists.

A traveller's history of Istanbul from the ancient time to nowadays Turkey. An account of city's great buildings, delicious food and vibrant life.

Leon Sciaky describes his childhood before the First World War in a prosperous, loving Jewish family in the cosmopolitan city of Salonica. Under the Ottoman Empire, the city's diverse communities - Jews, Muslim Turks, Orthodox Greeks and Bulgarians - met, traded and lived alongside each other day-to-day in an atmosphere of tolerance.

Provides a narrative of the city and university, and a guide to visits within a short driving distance. This title features a variety of aspects ignored in other accounts - food and fashion, music and gardens, books and clubs, Cambridge contributions to poetry, theatre and sport, royal associations and links with the Arab world and China.

A story of the heel of Italy - Puglia - as told by travellers. It has beautiful landscapes, cave towns and frescoed grotto churches, wonderful old cities with Romanesque cathedrals, Gothic castles and a wealth of Baroque architecture.

Follows every step of Robert Louis Stevenson's last years, studying every clue left behind by the Scottish writer and reaching his own conclusion about the most dramatic turn in Stevenson's life: his decision to settle in Samoa, where the climate was poison for his already diseased lungs.

Not even the English are keen to explain what England actually is. Holger Ehling takes us on a journey to iconic places, from London to Jarrow, from Stonehenge to the Eden Project, from Shakespeare's Globe to the marvels of Blackpool, pondering along the way about what it is that makes these places so quintessentially English.

Just as the art of the table became a centrepiece of French mores, Balzac used it as a connecting thread in his novels, showing how food can evoke character, atmosphere, class, and social climbing. This title describes the ways food and the art of the table feature in Honore de Balzac's writings.

Napoleonic historian Johannes Willms visits this strange colonial survivor and unearths both a past and present that disturbs and delights with observations far beyond the ghost of Bonaparte.

Each year of their 30-year marriage, Louis Begley and his wife Anka Muhlstein have spent long, enjoyable months in Venice. They write and live there and over the decades La Serenissima has become their second home. Here, they share the lives of the locals, far off the well trodden tourist track.

Did you know Chinese don't eat soup, they drink it? That their surnames come before their first names? That their good sense is to be found not in their heads but in their hearts? Or that white is their colour of mourning? This title provides a guide to China's sociable and friendly people and their complex and often contradictory society.

A travelogue and a personal reassessment of the a formative chapter in Lord Byron's short life.

A knowledgeable, loving and poetic account of a journey across his country by one of Sweden's most renowned and revered writers. Gustafsson paints an evocative portrait of his homeland.