Why are we creative? Why are we not? In The Dialectic of Creativity, Hermann Vaske explores these...

'A beautiful, compelling memoir. ... Father and Son is an exquisite, sometimes lunatic tension be...

Bush's 'war on terror' as experienced by an Englishman living in the Pacific Northwest.

Moving, exquisitely written and hugely entertaining, Waxwings captures the landscape and life of ...

Winner of the Royal Society of Literature's Heinemann Award and the Thomas Cook Award.

A New York Times Editors' Choice for Book of the YearWinner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers ...

'Teems with acerbic humour . . . 600 relentlessly intelligent pages of erudite, witty and combati...

A New York Times Notable Book'In an era of jet tourism, [Jonathan Raban] remains a traveler-adven...

'One of the most delightful travel books in thirty years'New York Times

The author of Bad Land realizes a lifelong dream as he navigates the waters of the Mississippi Ri...

Eothen, which means `news from the eaststarted out as a few notes scribbled on the back of a map,...

?Mark Twain was the first truly American writer, and all of us since are his heirs.?--William Fau...

'A poignant memoir of recovery and reflection after a life-changing stroke, by a winner of the Na...

'Raban is, for my money, one of the key writers of the past three decades - not only for his imme...

'A valuable book and a necessary one. One of the funniest and cleverest voyages on record.' Chris...

Jonathan Raban's powerful novel is set in Seattle in 1999, at the height of its infatuation with ...

An extraordinary memoir about family, the past and mortality, and the final work from the peerles...

'Jonathan Raban is one of the world's greatest living travel writers.' William Dalrymple

Michael Brophy has painted the Pacific Northwest landscape for over two decades, from sumptuously...

In the not-too-distant future, national identity cards are mandatory, and America has become obse...

Put Jonathan Raban on a boat and the results will be fascinating, and never more so than when he'...

'Of all his generation's travellers, Jonathan Raban is the most sophisticated, writing with a sub...

With the same rigorous observation (natural and social), invigorating stylishness, and encycloped...

'Jonathan Raban is simply one of the great writers of nonfiction at work today. I hold his work i...

'Jonathan Raban is the only person I listen to in matters of travel and books and writing in gene...

When I finally arrived in London to stay, I felt twice life size. To be an immigrant is to play o...

From Jonathan Raban, the award--winning author of Bad Land and Passage to Juneau, comes this quir...

An extraordinary memoir about family, the past and mortality, and the final work from the peerles...

This is an anthology of writing about the sea from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. It is ex...

An entrancing chronicle of the voyage from Seattle to the Alaskan capital from the late Anglo-Ame...

Jonathan Raban's enthralling journey into the history of the Great Plains of Montana - the least ...

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A poignant memoir of love, trauma, and recovery after a life...