Tropic of Capricorn
Simon Reeve
Published 2008 by BBC Books
This book charts Simon Reeve and his crew’s experiences travelling along the Tropic of Capricorn. Even if you have seen the television series this book is still rich in detail and depth. I was intrigued to learn more of Reeve’s observations and opinions on these little travelled and little known places. As the book reveals it is not exactly a regular tourists destination and route.
The journey took him through Namibia, Bot...
Ross Kemp on Afghanistan
By Ross Kemp
Published 2009 by the Penguin Group
Ross Kemp has morphed from a soap star and actor into a serious and acclaimed investigative journalist and television presenter. In the last five years he has had two ...
Published by Century 2008
I can vividly remember seeing a loud, brash, blue comic at St David’s Hall in Cardiff in 1995. He had the audience eating out of his hand as well as doubled over with laughter. That comedian was Frank Skinner. This late...
Ian Marchant
Published 2006 by Bloomsbury
This is a travel book that is greater than the sum of its parts. When I first picked it up and read the back cover I thought: This should be a nice light read, its just a book about a bloke that does ...
By Ross Kemp
Published by Michael Joseph Penguin Books 2008
Most people will forever associate actor Ross Kemp with the characters Grant Mitchell from ‘Eastenders’ and Henry ‘Henno’ Garvie of ‘Ultimate Force.’ More recently he has been making a...
