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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorCat on a Hot Tiled Roof: Mayhem in Mayfair and Mallorca
Anna Nicholas · 345 pages
Having moved with her family to rural Mallorca to escape the stresses of London life, PR consultant Anna Nicholas continues to commute back to her glitzy Mayfair agency to earn a crust. Meanwhile she is harboring a bizarre dream to open a luxury cattery on the island, unbeknownst to her long suffering Scottish husband, Alan, and son, Oliver. Life in the mountains is never uneventful as the author
More Ketchup Than Salsa - Confessions of a Tenerife Barman
Joe Cawley · 320 pages
Karma Gone Bad: How I Learned to Love Mangos, Bollywood and Water Buffalo
Jenny Feldon · 321 pages
When Jenny's husband gets transferred to India for work, she looks forward to a new life filled with glamorous expat friends and exciting adventures. What she doesn't expect is endless bouts of food poisoning, buffalo in the streets, and crippling loneliness in one of the most densely populated countries in the world. Ten thousand miles away from home, Jenny struggles to fight off depression and a
The Hotel on the Roof of the World: From Miss Tibet to Shangri La
Alec Le Sueur · 320 pages
The Reluctant Tuscan: How I Discovered My Inner Italian
Phil Doran · 306 pages
A Book Sense Pick for May 2005, this is the humorous tale of how the author moved— against his will and his better judgment—to Italy with his wife, only to rediscover himself, his marriage, and the importance of getting in touch with his inner Italian.After years of working on a string of sitcoms, Phil Doran found himself on the outside looking in. Just as he and his peers had replaced the older g
Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine
Eric Weiner · 349 pages
After a health scare, an atheist travels the world searching for an experience of the divine, from meditating with Tibetan lamas in Nepal and unblocking his chi in China, to studying the Kabbalah in Israel.
Seriously Mum, Where's that Donkey?
Alan Parks · 160 pages
Ripe for the Picking
Annie Hawes · 396 pages
During the course of Annie Hawes' new book, local culinary superstar, Ciccio, gradually takes over as Annie's constant companion. How irresistible is a man who first demonstrates his affection and esteem by inviting her into his vineyard to help himmix up cow manure, which she spends the afternoon slapping onto an old pizza oven to improve its insulation, before driving her at terrifying speed to
Do Travel Writers Go to Hell?: A Swashbuckling Tale of High Adventures, Questionable Ethics, and Professional Hedonism
Thomas Kohnstamm · 288 pages
For those who think that travel guidebooks are the gospel truth.The waitress suggests that I come back after she closes down the restaurant, around midnight. We end up having sex in a chair and then on one of the tables in the back corner. I pen a note in my Moleskine that I will later recount in the guidebook review, saying that the restaurant "is a pleasant surprise . . . and the table service i
Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China's Other Billion
Michael Levy · 242 pages
An irreverent account of the author's experiences as a Jewish-American Peace Corps volunteer serving in rural China describes his observations about the lives of China's interior populations and their complex relationships with local traditions and the rapid changes of modernization.
Last Days of the Bus Club
Chris Stewart · 270 pages
It's two decades since Chris Stewart moved to his farm on the wrong side of a river in the mountains of southern Spain and his daughter Chloe is preparing to fly the nest for university. In this latest, typically hilarious dispatch from El Valero we find Chris, now a local literary celebrity, using his fame to help his old sheep-shearing partner find work on a raucous road trip; cooking a TV lunch
Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down
Rosecrans Baldwin · 304 pages
The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City
David Lebovitz · 282 pages
Like so many others, David Lebovitz dreamed about living in Paris ever since he first visited the city in the 1980s. Finally, after a nearly two-decade career as a pastry chef and cookbook author, he moved to Paris to start a new life. Having crammed all his worldly belongings into three suitcases, he arrived, hopes high, at his new apartment in the lively Bastille neighborhood. But he soon discov
Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound
Grant Lawrence · 286 pages
How to Walk a Puma: My (mis)adventures in South America
Peter Allison · 228 pages
Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain · 462 pages
At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Twains early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, here is the raw material from which Mark Twain wrote his finest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
How the World Makes Love: . . . And What It Taught a Jilted Groom
Franz Wisner · 308 pages
Backpacked: A Reluctant Trip Across Central America
Catherine Ryan Howard · 278 pages
The Motion of the Ocean: 1 Small Boat, 2 Average Lovers, and a Woman's Search for the Meaning of Wife
Janna Cawrse Esarey
Two Old Fools - Olé: Another Slice of Andalucian Life
Victoria Twead · 314 pages
For Fukui's Sake: Two Years In Rural Japan
Sam Baldwin · 210 pages