Foxed Books

Elizabeth Bowen lived in Rome for three months in the 1950s. This charming book perfectly captures the city she discovered  and is an engaging mix of memoir and guide.

Colin Thubron joins the pilgrims who circle Mount Kailas, the most sacred mountain in the world. His writing is as evocative as ever, but this is also a personal pilgrimage after the death of his mother leaves him the only surviving member of his family.

Paris is the perfect city for the pedestrian, not too sprawling and with beautiful sights around every corner. This is not a guide book, but the story of a year of walks that John Baxter took, following the trails of the city’s legendary artists and writers. Hidden gardens, cafe haunts of the famous, secret alleyways and bustling boulevards are awaiting your pleasure.

Robert Byron is best known for The Road to Oxiana, but Europe in the Looking-Glass is his first book, written twelve years earlier when he was sent down from Oxford for ‘misdemeanours’. He and three friends drove across Europe to Athens, blundering from one disaster to another. They are carefree and self-indulgent, but Robert Byron’s descriptions of Europe in 1925 already show his remarkable skill as a travel writer.