For sale in CIS only! A world-famous Oxford story from a new angle: the essential role played by the River Thames in the creation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass . It was on rowing trips with Alice Liddell and her s...

For sale in CIS only! Long before it became an Italian offshore island, Sicily was the land in the centre of the Mediterranean where the great civilizations of Europe and Northern Africa met. In ancient times it was the scene of conflicts between Ca...

For sale in CIS only! For more than ten years Chris Koenig's "Past Times" column has been a regular favourite in the Oxford Times , bringing to life unexpected and sometimes unusual aspects of the city and county's history. Ranging over Oxford and i...

For sale in CIS only! Since its foundation in the ninth century Prague has punched way above its weight to become a fulcrum of European culture. The city s most illustrious figures in the fields of music, literature and film are well known: Mozart s...

For sale in CIS only! Made up of a curious network of islands and lagoons, Lagos is one of the fastest growing cities in the world The unique melting pot culture of Lagos has produced literary and artistic achievements that are only just beginning t...

For sale in CIS only! The reality of Marseille, with its secret life and scarred beauty, has little in common with its sulphurous reputation. Its inhabitants, who like to keep themselves and their city's true character to themselves, prefer it that...

For sale in CIS only! The Isle of Wight is England's largest island, but its diamond-shape is at most 23 miles long and 13 miles wide. Anchored close to the Hampshire coast, its location has created a sheltered waterway, the Solent, with its own loc...

For sale in CIS only! "The Peak District" was Britain's first National Park and the "breathing space" for people in the great cities of the industrial north. Prehistoric man built stone circles at Stanton-in-the-Moor and Arbor Low and the Romans had...

For sale in CIS only! With the images of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict so dominant in our minds, walking for leisure is the one activity probably least associated with the West Bank region. But Stefan Szepesi s book wanders well off the beaten tr...

For sale in CIS only! Why would a man retire from his job and take off on a unique 4,000-mile walk around France? What possessed him to wear out his sixty-year-old hips and knees when he could spend a comfortable retirement at home? In this fascinat...