5 Top travel books like Timeless On The Silk Road: An Odyssey From London To Hanoi by Heather Ellis

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Timeless On The Silk Road: An Odyssey From London To Hanoi

By: Heather Ellis

4.41

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

After riding her motorcycle across Africa, Heather Ellis rides the fabled Silk Roads of antiquity f…

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1. The Music Shop

By: Rachel Joyce

3.84

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the world-wide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a new novel ab… read more

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"Aretha is soul. You can’t argue with Aretha."

-Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop

"...the vivid past would not go away. Like music, said Peg. Even when it was over, it kept living inside you."

-Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop

"Real love was a journey with many pitfalls and complications, and sometimes the place you ended up was not the one you hoped for."

-Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop

"Frank was so busy loving other people he had no room to accommodate the fact that someone might turn around one day and love him back."

-Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop

2. The Amazing Mrs Livesey

By: Freda Marnie Nicholls

3.71

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

The truly remarkable life of the notorious Ethel Livesey, a serial fraudster and confidence trickst… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. Jupiters Travels: Four Years Around the World on a Triumph

By: Ted Simon

4.19

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

Simon rode a motorcycle around the world in the seventies, when such a thing was unheard of. In fou… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • adventure
"In spite of wars and tourism and pictures by satellite, the world is just the same size it ever was. It is awesome to think how much of it I will never see. It is not a trick to go round these days, …"

-Ted Simon, Jupiters Travels: Four Years Around the World on a Triumph

4. Daughters of the Dragon

By: William Andrews

4.12

Format: 206 pages,

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5. Sahara

By: Paula Constant

4.00

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Having walked more than 3,000 miles from Trafalgar Square to Morocco, Paula Constant finds herself … read more

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6. Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucía

By: Chris Stewart

3.07

Format: None pages,

No sooner had Chris Stewart set eyes on El Valero than he handed over a check. Now all he had to do… read more

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7. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

By: Peter Frankopan

3.77

Format: None pages,

From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and a… read more

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8. Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life

By: Arlene Blum

3.86

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

A legendary trailblazer, Arlene Blum defied the climbing establishment of the 1970s by leading the … read more

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9. A Song of Comfortable Chairs (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #23)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

4.29

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this latest installment in the beloved No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, Grace Makutsi enco… read more

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10. From a Far and Lovely Country (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #24)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

4.23

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

The latest installment in Alexander McCall Smith's delightfully diverting No. 1 Ladies' Detective … read more

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11. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

By: William Dalrymple

4.20

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results… read more

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  • nonfiction
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12. A Keeper

By: Graham Norton

3.99

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

When Elizabeth Keane returns to Ireland after her mother’s death, she’s focused only on saying good… read more

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"I've always found there are far fewer answers than there are questions."

-Graham Norton, A Keeper

"The dead don't vanish, they leave a negative of themselves stamped on the world."

-Graham Norton, A Keeper

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13. The Tilt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #2)

By: Chris Hammer

4.29

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A man runs for his life in a forest. A woman plans sabotage. A body is unearthed. Newly-minted… read more

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14. The Sun Sister (The Seven Sisters, #6)

By: Lucinda Riley

4.35

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

The Sun Sister is the sixth epic story in the Seven Sisters series by the number one international … read more

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"We zijn ontworteld. We hebben niet meer het gevoel dat we ergens thuishoren of bij iemand horen. Het zal wel een van de nadelen van globalisering zijn."

-Lucinda Riley, The Sun Sister (The Seven Sisters, #6)

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15. The Curfew

By: T.M. Logan

3.98

Format: 456 pages, Kindle Edition

Your son said he was home. WHY DID HE LIE? It's time to preorder the brand new up-all-night thri… read more

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16. The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3)

By: Chris Hammer

4.23

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Tilt. Chris Hammer's… read more

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17. Landlines

By: Raynor Winn

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • adventure
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

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18. Miss Benson's Beetle

By: Rachel Joyce

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

She's going too far to go it alone. It is 1950. London is still reeling from World War II, and M… read more

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  • travel
  • adventure
"Just because you've never done something doesn't mean you can't start."

-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

"But there were moments of joy. Even at its worst, life will offer such moments."

-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

"History is not made up by events alone, but also by what lies between the lines."

-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

"The truest friendships are those that allow us to step out of the confines of what we once were, and to realize instead what we might be."

-Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

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19. The Bookseller at the End of the World

By: Ruth Shaw

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny book… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"My mother, more than anyone, knew why I lived such a high-risk life. She gave me the freedom to run."

-Ruth Shaw, The Bookseller at the End of the World

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20. The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

By: Holly Ringland

4.04

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

From international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Holly Ringland, comes a ha… read more

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"There's a certain kind of beauty that can only exist because of darkness."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"You can see it, but it's not really there. Just like the end of a rainbow, the horizon is an illusion."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Catch the gold in your eyelashes so we have light for later, Starry, so it won't be dark in our dreams."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Everything I've wanted most in life has been on the other side of finding the courage to ask for the help I need."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

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21. The Uncaged Sky: My 804 Days in an Iranian Prison

By: Kylie Moore-Gilbert

4.34

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

‘The sky above our heads was uncaged and unlike us, free.’ The extraordinary true story of Kyli… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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22. The Leviathan

By: Rosie Andrews

3.48

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

She is awake... Norfolk, 1643. With civil war tearing England apart, reluctant soldier Thomas Tr… read more

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"Before leaving, I stopped to drip some water into my father’s mouth. I took one unresponsive hand in mine, willing him to understand. ‘A day, no more, and we will return with help for you. My oath up…"

-Rosie Andrews, The Leviathan

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23. To Kill a Troubadour (Bruno, Chief of Police, #15)

By: Martin Walker

4.19

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

When a musician’s new song hits a political nerve, he finds himself in the crosshairs of Spanish na… read more

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24. The Phoenix Crown

By: Kate Quinn

3.82

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

From bestselling authors Janie Chang and Kate Quinn, a thrilling and unforgettable narrative about … read more

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25. The Good Wife of Bath

By: Karen Brooks

4.20

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

In the middle ages, a famous poet told a story that mocked a strong woman. It became a literary cla… read more

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"I've always said, never trust a person without brows, a maxim that has proven true on more than one occasion."

-Karen Brooks, The Good Wife of Bath

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26. GOT2GO: How I rode around the world on a motorcycle solo and what I learned along the way

By: Lea Rieck

4.48

Format: 390 pages, Kindle Edition

Your family. Your friends. Your job. Your language. Your life, as you know it. Imagine you leave al… read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. The Deck

By: Fiona Farrell

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

What is the point of inventing stories when reality eclipses imagination? A little way off in the f… read more

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28. The House With All The Lights On

By: Jessica Kirkness

4.07

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

The House With All The Lights On is a lyrical exploration of family, identity and history, and what… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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29. Timeless On The Silk Road: An Odyssey From London To Hanoi

By: Heather Ellis

4.41

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

After riding her motorcycle across Africa, Heather Ellis rides the fabled Silk Roads of antiquity f… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • adventure
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30. Mary Ann & Captain Piper

By: Jessica North

3.88

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

The fascinating story of the daughter of First Fleet convicts who managed to overcome her humble or… read more

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31. Waiting for Mango Season

By: Ellie Cooper

4.17

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

Ellie was stranded in India as the world locked down.After rescuing a rusty Royal Enfield, she emba… read more

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4.19

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4.20

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4.33

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