As we jet off on holiday, passing from airport lounge to hotel in our desperation to escape our everyday lives and find some better weather, wed do well to ask ourselves what on earth were doing. Do we really travel any more, or do we just arrive?The Idle Traveller calls on us all to re-assess why we travel and what travel has become.Besides extolling the virtues of staycation holidaying, Dan Kieran argues we need to bin the brochure, glide rather than fly, embrace disaster, be epic in our tr...

Dan Kieran was deputy editor of The Idler magazine from 2000–2010 before he turned his attention to writing books and slow travel articles for The Times, the Guardian, The Daily Telegraph and the Observer. He created a reputation for himself as the only travel writer who doesn’t fly, preferring much slower means of transportation instead. Described by Newsweek as the 'Champion of Slow Travel' Dan has written and edited fourteen books including the infamous bestseller Crap Towns, The Surfbo...

What is it about an engine roaring into life that makes grown men go weak at the knees?This is a book about machines and the men who love them. Some of these men are quite odd. Having always been a mechanaphobe himself, living in the slow lane, Dan Kieran is on a mission to discover the allure of machines and man's need for speed. Follow Dan as he climbs aboard a penny-farthing for a jaunt around west London, drives a steam train through the 'alps', joins the pit lane crew of Mitsu...

The genuinely rough guide to Britain is back. Ten years after it first lifted the concrete slab in the garden of England, Crap Towns returns to dish the dirt on the latest planning disasters, urban blight and posh blighters disfiguring our nation.'My friends and I once spent an evening in Thetford. Some people threw a cucumber at us.''Southampton: the only place in the UK I've ever seen someone get on a bus and nonchalantly spark up a crack pipe.''Bacup long claimed...

The Book of Idle Pleasures is a restorative gift book for the stressed out, tired and hassled. An antidote to our non-stop culture, it is a welcome compendium of timeless delights.The book lists and reflects on 75 simple pastimes and proves that the best things in life really are free: lighting fires, skimming stones, catching falling leaves, whittling, staring out of the window, dreaming, doodling or taking a nap. The Book of Idle Pleasures is a celebration of pl...

MaxTac is Night City's defense against the terror of cyberpsychos. But with a 100% success rate and a 400% kill rate, maybe they're the ones to be afraid of…A corpo netrunner turned cyberpyscho taking over a whole building and killing dozens of people is just another mission for squad SPAR Delta. This time things take a deadly turn, and as a result the squad is assigned a new leader—one with a disturbing taste for blood. One member tormented by a dark past, and ano...

Podkin is the son of a warrior chieftain. He knows that one day it will be up to him to lead his warren and guard it in times of danger. But for now, he's quite happy to laze around. Then Podkin's home is brutally attacked, and the young rabbits are forced to flee. With danger all around them, Podkin must protect his family, and attempt to defeat the most horrifying enemy rabbitkind has ever known.

From bestselling author and winner of the Blue Peter Book Award, this is the sixth adventure set in the world of Podkin One-Ear.'Why are you worried? You have us beside you! We've captured three spirits already. We've beaten Endwatchers, two clans, snakes, plagues and a whole ocean of disgusting maggots.'After capturing Charice, there is only one spirit left for Uki to find: Mortix, the most dangerous of all. With his friends Jori, Cole and Kree, Uki heads to Eisenfell - th...

The bravest, smallest rabbit the world has ever known! Podkin One-Ear is back in the eighth book of this epic series, in a race against time to find a magical anvil.After claiming the Singing Spear, Podkin heads to the sea to search out the last gift of all - the anvil of Magmarok - which is hidden inside a mysterious labyrinth. He must brave Ancient sea monsters and pirates to arrive at the city that houses the anvil before Scramashank and his Gorm. But what will it take to defeat...

Podkin is now Keeper of the Gifts - which is a tremendously important job and just a tiny bit boring. It doesn't help that there are still three gifts missing - Podkin can't stop himself from thinking about that. So when the Godseye Mirror begins to shimmer and shift revealing a motley crew of travellers is approaching, Podkin sees it as a sign that his world is about to be upended all over again . . .It's not long before Podkin and Uki finally meet - united in their hatred for the...

What skills will matter most for work, business and life in the future? Where should you focus your energy and effort when the world is changing at an extraordinary rate? How can you future proof yourself, your organization, and your kids?In this groundbreaking book Kieran Flanagan and Dan Gregory have interviewed hundreds of successful business people, educators, futurists, economists, and historians to uncover the key skills that will always be critical to succes...

From bestselling author and winner of the Blue Peter Best Story Book Award, Uki and the Outcasts is the first in a trilogy set in the world of Podkin One-Ear.'EXCELLENT,' says the bard. 'It's probably a good idea for you to know about him.''Wait . . . him? Who's him?' said Rue.'Uki,' says the bard. 'Uki Patchwork. The Magpie Demon. Uki of the Two Furs.'From the Ice Wastes beyond the Cinder Wall emerges an unlikely hero. Rejected by his village and left to die,...