Boating

‘Brilliant, clear, and humane’ Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love

‘Miraculous and hopeful’ Emma Straub, author of All Adults Here

‘Quietly profound … belongs on the shelf next to Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild’ New York Times

‘Brilliant, clear, and humane’ Elizabeth Gilbert

‘Miraculous and hopeful’ Emma Straub

Riverman: An American Odyssey uncovers the story of an extraordinary man and his puzzling disappearance, and paints a picture of the singular spirit of America’s riverbank towns.

‘Brilliant, clear, and humane’ Elizabeth Gilbert

‘Miraculous and hopeful’ Emma Straub

Riverman: An American Odyssey uncovers the story of an extraordinary man and his puzzling disappearance, and paints a picture of the singular spirit of America’s riverbank towns.

‘Brilliant, clear, and humane’ Elizabeth Gilbert

‘Miraculous and hopeful’ Emma Straub

Riverman: An American Odyssey uncovers the story of an extraordinary man and his puzzling disappearance, and paints a picture of the singular spirit of America’s riverbank towns.

The worst storm in history seen from the wheelhouse of a doomed fishing trawler; a mesmerisingly vivid account of a natural hell from a perspective that offers no escape.

The story of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart boat race – the most dramatic in yacht racing history

In her forties and recovering from a long battle against depression and alcoholism, Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis decided to trade in her landlubber life – a nice house in Cardiff and a sensible job at the BBC – for life aboard a small yacht with her husband Leighton, a former bosun with the Merchant Navy and now in his mid-sixties.

The story of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart boat race – the most dramatic in yacht racing history