==Travel==
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{{newreview
|author=Sam Miller
|title=Delhi: Adventures in a Megacity
|rating=4
|genre=Travel
|summary=Miller is probably one of the best people to take you on a tour of Delhi. He's not a native so has no in-bred partisanship, but he does love the place so will make sure you do too, but mainly because to begin with he HATED it… so he will understand if you don't share his ironic good humour about the shit squirter or the fact that sometimes the only way to cross the road is to take a rickshaw taxi.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099526743</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Brian W Pugh, Paul R Spiring and Sadru Bhanji
|summary=''As our resident travel writer this might interest you…'' came my introduction to this book. Misguidedly as it turned out, for the emphasis in Watson's work is much more heavily on the ''literary'' than on the ''tourist''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230210929</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Suzanna Clarke
|title=A House in Fez: Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco
|rating=4
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Perhaps it's a little unfair to come to ''A House in Fez'' still inspired by the storytelling of Tahir Shah's [[In Arabian Nights by Tahir Shah|In Arabian Nights]], because this is a very different take on Morocco, aimed (as a book) no doubt at a very different market, but reading the two in quick succession it is hard to avoid comparison.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091925223</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Paul Richardson
|title=A Late Dinner: Discovering the Food of Spain
|rating=5
|genre=Travel
|summary=Although subtitled ''discovering the food of Spain'', this excellently written, engaging and interesting book is about so much more. Yes, the focus is on food, mouthwateringly described, but it is also about culture, people, travel, tourism, history and geography.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747593809</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rowan Simons
|title=Bamboo Goalposts
|rating=4
|genre=Sport
|summary=When it comes to football, I'm in agreement with the great Bill Shankly when he said: ''Football is not a matter of life and death, it's far more important than that''. When it comes to China, my knowledge is limited to what I've seen on the TV recently about the earthquake, the Olympics and the protests; vague memories of Tiananmen Square and a love of the cuisine, or at least the version that comes from my local takeaway. Like many in the Western world, I have no concept of what life is truly like in China.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230703720</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Tahir Shah
|title=In Arabian Nights
|rating=5
|genre=Travel
|summary=Once upon a time there was a traveller who travelled through Pakistan to visit far Afghanistan, where he would seek out the lost treasure of the Mughals. Sadly the traveller had an English passport and a Muslim name, and he was travelling from one enemy state to another. His story was not believed.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385612079</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Daniel Kalder
|title=Strange Telescopes
|rating=3
|genre=Travel
|summary=''Bill Bryson with Tourette's'' was one of the epithets that met Kalder's previous travelogue ([[Lost Cosmonaut]]) along with 'sharp absurdist insight', 'deliberately crass' and 'revelatory'. I can't actually disagree with any of that if you were to apply it to the latest offering ''Strange Telescopes''.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571231233</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Mole
|title=I Was a Potato Oligarch: Travels and Travails in the New Russia
|rating=1
|genre=Travel
|summary=I remember getting this book in post, reading the title and thinking no, even though I am Russian, I will try to be unbiased and judge it like I would judge any other book about a foreign country experience. I now have to regretfully admit I failed. In my defence, John Mole's focus on mocking the nation and country made that all too easy.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1857885090</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Sun Shuyun
|title=A Year in Tibet
|rating=4
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=Tibet is an emotive word these days. Rightly so.
Since long before the dawn of Communism, China has been adept at numbering the rights and wrongs of history, with the three this and the seven that. Sadly, she does not yet see the invasion of Tibet as a wrong. I am in no position to know what the majority of ordinary Chinese know about Tibet, nor what they think of their government's official standpoint on it. Along with many others, I can only hope that one day they will have full and free access to the internet and other media where they will be able to read the many and varied opinions of people from around the world, and will be allowed not only to make up their own mind – but to then debate that standpoint, publicly and freely.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007265115</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Fuchsia Dunlop
|title=Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-sour Memoir of Eating in China
|rating=5
|genre=Cookery
|summary=On her first trip to the orient Fuchsia Dunlop is appalled at the preserved duck eggs served as hors d'oeuvre in Hong Kong. Her description of this first encounter with the Chinese delicacy is rich with words like filthy, revolting, nightmarish, translucent, oozy, mouldy, toxic, slime…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091918308</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Nicholas Murray
|title=A Corkscrew is Most Useful: The Travellers of Empire
|rating=4.5
|genre=History
|summary=The British Empire, lawd bless it – so large the sun never set on it. Also never resting upon its surface, if this book is anything to go by, was an increasing spread of the moneyed classes, gallivanting off to all corners, whether as imperial missionaries, explorers, or just plain travellers.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0316731048</amazonuk>
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