Warwickshire, West Midlands

This guide features all of the must-see sights and a wide range of off-the-beaten-track places. It also provides detailed practical information on preparing for your trip. Wherever you go in this area, let this book lead the way.

Discover the Cotswolds, Stratford-Upon-Avon and Oxford with this comprehensive and entertaining travel guide, packed with practical information and honest recommendations by our independent experts. Whether you plan to wander amid stunning medieval architecture in Oxford, marvel at perhaps the fi...

For over a century, Birmingham has been the second largest town in England, and at the heart of British history. In his enjoyable and thoughtful book, Richard Vinen captures the drama of a small village that grew to become the quintessential city of the twentieth century: a place once synonymous ...

A moving, powerful autobiography from an inspirational woman, one of the Windrush generation who became a member of the House of Lords.

Kit de Waal and her brother and sisters had a hard childhood in the West Midlands. Her Irish mother didn't feed them, didn't believe in Christmas or birthdays, and thought the world would end in 1975. Her father saved all his money to return to the Caribbean, where he planned to make a new life w...

Kit de Waal grew up in a household of opposites and extremes. Her haphazard mother rarely cooked, forbade Christmas and birthdays, worked as a cleaner, nurse and childminder sometimes all at once and believed the world would end in 1975. Meanwhile, her father stuffed barrels full of goodies for h...