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City-Lit Guides

City-Lit Guides from publisher Oxygen books

City-Lit guides are an entertaining, lively and fascinating new series of travel guides. Collecting some of the best writing on European cities from both contemporary and classic authors, each one is sure to give you a real flavour of the place, whether you’re visiting or appreciating from the armchair. In addition, from publication of each City-Lit guide, we will list a handful of books that we feel make great reading companions to each guide. Just click one of the links below to find out more.

City-Pick: Amsterdam
Books to read in Amsterdam
City-Pick: Dublin Guide
Books to read in Dublin
City-Lit: Berlin Guide
Books to read in Berlin
City-Lit: London Guide
Books to read in London
City-Lit: Paris Guide
Books to read in Paris

City-Pick: Amsterdam
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City-Pick: Amsterdam

June 2010 Book of the Month. Not a travel guide but a literary flavour of a city. The series has done Paris, London, Berlin and Dublin. They are anthologies...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/05/2010
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Books to read in Amsterdam
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The Good Thief's Guide to Amsterdam
Chris Ewan
This is such fun, a good, light-hearted caper of theft and skulduggery introducing us to a memorable anti-hero, one Charlie Howard, writer and thief. He is asked to steal two plaster monkeys and straightaway the fun begins. Sadly the explanation...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2008
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The Uncommon Reader
Alan Bennett
One of the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire's favourite books. An absolute gem, this novella is Alan Bennett’s take on the Queen becoming a bibliophile and it is absolutely delightful. At one point the Queen laments not having read books of authors she...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2008
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City-Pick: Dublin Guide
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The Apothecary's House
Adrian Mathews
Combining some terrific elements of superb detection and riveting mystery alongside a very inventive plot and set in Amsterdam’s art world. WW2’s Nazi looting is cleverly intertwined within a modern and accurate setting of the city today. You’ll relate to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/04/2006
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Books to read in Dublin
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City-Pick: Dublin

March 2010 Book of the Month. Get a feel for Dublin with this wonderful book full of short pieces and extracts about one of the best cities in the world. Whether you are...
Format: Paperback - Released: 09/02/2010
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Evening Class
Maeve Binchy
An evening class starts up in the Dublin suburbs, transforming the lives of those who attend in more ways than they can ever have expected. Maeve Binchy takes her characters through the ringer and back and always ends by giving...
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/06/2005
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Round Ireland in Low Gear
Eric Newby
Eric Newby and his wife set off around Ireland on their bikes in the 1980’s simply for the fun of it. Here he writes about their exploits cycling through rain and sunshine and sometimes aided by a pint of Guinness...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/11/1988
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City-Lit: Berlin Guide
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The Dalkey Archive
Flann O'brien
A sort of sequel to O’Brien’s best known book The Third Policeman, following characters from the latter. If you haven’t read him before then The Dalkey Archives gives you a general idea of his style - slightly surreal but...
Format: Paperback - Released: 16/04/2007
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Books to read in Berlin
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City-Lit: Berlin

November 2009 Book of the Month. Berlin is a fascinating city with an extraordinary history which gives plenty of fodder for the writer. Dip in to this wonderful guide to Berlin as seen...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/11/2009
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The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite
Beatrice Colin
Reviewed on Richard & Judy's Book Club 2009 on Wednesday 11 March. A fascinating read for anyone interested in cinema and especially the German cinema of the 1920’s and 30’s. Following the story of an orphaned child as she struggles to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/01/2009
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Pavel and I
Dan Vyleta
An atmospheric literary thriller set in the Berlin of 1946. Political intrigue, murder and a love story all find their place in this cleverly plotted novel.
Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2009
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City-Lit: London Guide
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Measuring the World
Daniel Kehlmann
The fascinating true story of two German scientists – Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Grauss - and their quest to discover facts about the world that we take for granted today. The two eccentrics are completely different characters from...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/10/2007
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Books to read in London
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City-Lit: London
Heather Reyes
June 2009 Book of the Month. Whether you are visiting or simply want to read interesting literature about one of the greatest cities in the world pick up a city-lit guide and be...
Format: Paperback - Released: 16/06/2009
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Brick Lane
Monica Ali
What else can we say about this outrageously sucessful first novel - rich, complex and rewarding and a 'must' read.
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2004
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A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
Xiaolu Guo
A brilliant journey of self discovery for the heroine of this novel. It starts off written in fragmented English, which can be slightly awkward to read but improves as our heroine’s grasp of the language improves. A funny, witty story...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/01/2008
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City-Lit: Paris Guide
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City-Lit: Paris

April 2009 Book of the Month. The perfect book for the armchair traveller as well as those of you visiting cities around the globe. With extracts from over 60 authors such as
Format: Paperback - Released: 31/03/2009
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A Year in the Merde
Stephen Clarke
Outrageous, irreverent and politically incorrect, a young Englishman copes with the French. The odd spelling as he phoneticizes the French accent takes a bit of getting used to but get passed that, for it really is very funny. The scenario...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2005
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The Lollipop Shoes
Joanne Harris
The much anticipated sequel to Chocolat, The Lollipop Shoes is set 5 years after we left Vianne and her daughter Anouk. Vianne now has another daughter and the three of them live in Montmartre. Vianne has changed their names, given up her...
Format: Paperback - Released: 21/04/2008
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Sepulchre
Kate Mosse
As absorbing and fascinating as Mosse’s first novel Labyrinth, Sepulchre is rich in history, mystery, revenge and obsession. Again this is a time split novel following the story of two women separated by over a century but linked by...
Format: Paperback - Released: 15/05/2008
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the unique city break travel guides - simply the best ever city writing

 


About the City-Lit guides...

The City-Lit series aims to give you the most entertaining, lively, and fascinating writing about our greatest cities, bringing them to life … whether you visit them in person or from your armchair. As well as Paris, 2009 takes us to London, Dublin, Berlin and Amsterdam. We hope you’ll follow us there.

 

Passion for the City-Lit guides...

 

‘For readers who don’t want to leave their minds at the airport.’ Celia Brayfield, novelist, journalist

 

‘Brilliant … The best way to get under the skin of a city is to read a novel, a short story, a poem set slap bang in the heart of things. These literary guide are a fabulous way to expand anyone’s reading list!’ Kate Mosse, best-selling author of Labyrinth

 

‘I really love the idea – when taking a trip, to have a book that offers just what you are offering … short pieces by good writers that capture the essence of a place.’ Orna Ross, author of A Dance in Time

 

‘An inviting new series of travel guides which collects some of the best writing on European cities to give a real flavour of the place ... Such an idée formidable, it seems amazing that it hasn’t been done before.’ The Bookseller, Editor’s Pick:

 

The people behind City-Lit guides...

Malcolm Burgess has over twenty years' experience as a book publisher marketer, writer and literature promoter. Series editor Heather Reyes is a highly respected editor and novelist who was a finalist for the Prince Maurice Prize.

 

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City-Lit guides are an imprint of Oxygen Books, a publisher of surprising books about all kinds of journeys, has an ambitious publishing programme for the years ahead.

 

www.oxygenbooks.co.uk

 

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