SIGNAL BOOKS

(P/B) DUBLIN
Europe's most westerly capital city was established by invaders and was for most of its history the locus of colonial administration, the engine room of foreign power and a major site of indigenous resistance. From The Act of Union through nineteenth-century decline and into the early years of Irish independence it was a city identified with poverty, dirt and decaying splendour. The Celtic Tiger produced sweeping changes, including massive new building projects, and the surprising revelation that Dublin has become fashionable.Two particula...
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(P/B) ICELAND

LISBON

(P/B) THE IONIAN ISLANDS AND EPIRUS
I first came to Corfu in the summer of 1967, as I had been offered a teaching position on the island. In December 1967 I received a letter from Sir Maurice Bowra, Warden of Wadham College Oxford, my old college, saying "Nobody could blame you for teaching at a school in Greece. What I rather dislike is people going there for a holiday and saying how splendid it all is" (29 December 1967). His comments had a bigger influence on me than I realized in that first year of the Military Dictatorship. I lived and worked in Northern Greece for five...
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(P/B) MADRID
Few people are likely to fall in love with Madrid for its appearance alone. Spread out over a flat, dusty and largely featureless landscape, and without the compensations either of a proper river, or of a generally distinguished architecture, Madrid is a city whose charms are not immediately obvious. From at least the nineteenth century onwards foreigners have unfailingly commented on its scarcity of major old monuments, on its uniform brash modernity and on me way it fails to live up to stereotypical notions of romantic Spain. Today's tou...
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(P/B) ATHENS
Modern Athens is a bustling, overgrown city, continually coming to terms with its illustrious past. Dominated by the Parthenon, the world-famous symbol of classical antiquity, it has been touched by every aspect of Greece's turbulent history, suffering invasions and occupations, sieges, division and dictatorship, and has grown dramatically into a metropolis of four million people. Mixing old and new, the Greek capital is a treasure house of eastern Orthodox and western culture, rich in the visual arts, architecture and poetry. Michael Llew...
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(H/B) QUESTIONS OF TASTE - THE PHILOSOPHY OF WINE

BRUSSELS - CITIES OF IMAGINATION (1902669479)

(P/B) BUDAPEST: A CULTURAL AND LITERARY HISTORY
The views of Budapest by the River Danube are unparalleled in Europe. On one side, the Buda Hills reach almost to the riverside, with Castle Hill and Gellert Hill offering outstanding panoramas. Pest, linked to Buda by a series of imposing bridges, with its mixture of late nineteenth-century Historicist and early twentieth-century Art Nouveau architecture, is still very much a "turn-of-the-century" city. For more than fifty years prior to the Second World War, Budapest was one of the outstanding cultural capitals of Central Europe, on a pa...
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(P/B) LIMA - A CULTURAL & LITERARY HISTORY (1902669983)

(P/B) VENICE

NEW YORK CITY - CITIES OF THE IMAGINATION (1902669436)

(P/B) LONDON: A CULTURAL & LITERARY HISTORY

(P/B) MOSCOW: A CULTURAL AND LITERARY HISTORY

(P/B) BY THE IONIAN SEA

MEXICO CITY - CITIES OF IMAGINATION (190266907X)

(P/B) NEW ORLEANS (CITIES OF THE IMAGINATION / SERIES)

(P/B) KYOTO (CITIES OF THE IMAGINATION / SERIES)

ROME - CITIES OF THE IMAGINATION (1902669150)

(P/B) PEOPLE OF THE STORM GOD
"Macedonia is a problem. It is such a problem that the French named fruit salad after it: macedoine des fruits. Four wars have been fought over it in the last eighty years, each bloodier than the previous one. They were fought to determine not only where exactly Macedonia is, but who lives there and in what state they should live." With this sense of historic complexity in mind, Will Myer travelled to the troubled Balkans in autumn 1994 and the following spring. His aim was to discover the political and human reality of a region beset by c...
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