Summary: In a special episode of our Book Club podcast, Simon Garfield joined our reading group to discuss his book On The Map... On the Map is a title which we have loved since the hardback came out last year, selecting it as our Book of the Month for October 2012, and nominating it for our inaugural Book of the Year. From Egyptian philosophers and treasure islands, to Google Maps and Facebook – via crafty collectors and the Ordnance Survey – Garfield tells the story of the human endeavour to explore, record, and locate ourselves, creating a fascinating history of an ever-changing world and the individuals who have mapped it. Each chapter explores a different story in the history of cartography, interspersed with “pocket maps” on subjects such as London Underground maps and a death map of Soho, with map reproductions, photographs and illustrations throughout. We think this is a brilliant addition to this Book Club selection, offering a thoroughly entertaining and accessible non-fiction choice of near universal appeal. Watch an interview with Simon Garfield about On The Map here The Book Club Podcast We think our Book Club selection are books not only worth reading, but worth talking about. Each week, we're bringing together a group of Waterstones Cardholders and our own booksellers to talk about our Book Club book of the week. In this podcast, our book group got the chance to discuss On the Map with the book's author Simon Garfield - who also introduced his latest book, To The Letter. You can download the discussion as a podcast via iTunes. Read about Simon Garfield's latest book To The Letter here in this exclusive post You can Reserve & Collect On the Map at your local Waterstones bookshop (http://bit.ly/1bz1wwU), buy it online at Waterstones.com (http://bit.ly/1bz1y82), or in ePub (http://bit.ly/1bz1CEN)
