The Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean

The Other Side of Truth by Beverley Naidoo

I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Cherry by Sara Wheeler

The Small Woman by Alan Burgess

The Birthday Boys by Beryl Bainbridge

Race to the Pole by Ranulph Fiennes

The Storm Garden by Philip Gross

Taking on the World by Ellen McArthur

Michael Joseph Grasshopper by Barbara Vine

Into the Crocodile Nest by Benedict Alien

Faber Book of Explorations edited by Benedict Alien

Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer