Bøker av Jonathan Raban

'This is Raban at his best, which is saying a great deal' Ian McEwan

'Raban's journey, made through empty landscaped that once brimmed with optimism, reveals what happened when American innocence begins to curdle. The tale, borne along by its superlative writing, is a riveting one' Observer

Sharp...funy...a marvellous attempt to discover the meaning of home' Ian Jack, Observer

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

One of the classics of travel writing, this is a prescient exploration of the individual's relationship with urban living

`Teems with acerbic humour . . . 600 relentlessly intelligent pages of erudite, witty and combative prose.' Patrick McGrath, Guardian `Book of the Week'

Moving, exquisitely written and hugely entertaining, Waxwings captures the landscape and life of contemporary America, confirming Jonathan Raban as one of our very finest writers

First published in 1987, Raban writes about reading and travelling, fleshing out London literary life in the `70s and `80s.

First published in 1979, Arabia is an exploration of the modern Middle East, from Earls Court and back again.

A voyage round Britain in a two-masted sailing boat, The Gosfield Maid. First published in 1986.

First published in 1990, Hunting Mister Heartbreak is a discovery of the many faces of America, from New York to Florida, from rural Alabama to Seattle.

First published in 1981, Old Glory tells of a journey down the Mississippi in an open-topped boat. No one who has read this book can possibly complain about being surprised by Trump s election victory. Thirty years later we see it as not just wry, funny, brave, immersed and beautifully observed but prophetic. A book to be read and re-read.

This is an anthology of writing about the sea from Anglo-Saxon times to the present day. It is extraordinarily varied, including fiction and non-fiction, prose and poetry, documentary accounts, and oceanographic writing. Familiar names, such as Byron, Defoe, Melville, and Conrad are well represented, but there are many new names too.

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