Travel writing
In brief: Because I Don’t Know What You Mean…; One Midsummer’s Day; Imagine a City – reviews
Josie Long’s first story collection brims with wry wit, Mark Cocker pays philosophical tribute to the swift, and Mark Vanhoenacker offers a pilot’s-eye view of urban life
Ben East
28, May, 2023 @4:00 PM
‘Travel is medicine’: how the Sherborne Travel Writing Festival can inspire our trips
Colin Thubron, Sara Wheeler and other celebrated writers will be in Dorset to explain why travel literature still has an important role to play despite the climate crisis and hardening of borders
Rory MacLean
04, Apr, 2023 @6:00 AM
American Ramble review: a riveting tale of the divided United States
Neil King Jr, once of the Wall Street Journal, walked from Washington to New York. His account of the journey is essential
Lloyd Green
02, Apr, 2023 @6:00 AM
Sarn Helen by Tom Bullough review – notes from a small country
Wales is the measure of all things in this timeshifting story of ecological change
Kathryn Hughes
15, Feb, 2023 @7:30 AM
Elixir by Kapka Kassabova review – vale of enchantment
A spellbinding journey through the villages, valleys and folk wisdom of the author’s native Bulgaria
Amy-Jane Beer
10, Feb, 2023 @7:30 AM
Colin Thubron: ‘Simone de Beauvoir altered my ideas about women’
The travel writer and novelist on reading The Second Sex as an 18-year-old, discovering Proust, and the brilliance of Byron
20, Jan, 2023 @10:00 AM
Jonathan Raban: his travel writing could pierce your heart
Author Philip Marsden on how Raban, who has died aged 80, brought us his darkly comic and sardonic view of the worldJonathan Raban, travel writer and novelist, dies aged 80
Philip Marsden
18, Jan, 2023 @4:36 PM
Jonathan Raban, travel writer and novelist, dies aged 80
The British author, who lived in the US, blended memoir and travelogue in books that were often inspired by the sea
Sian Cain
18, Jan, 2023 @8:53 AM
The Half Known Life by Pico Iyer review – peace and quiet in political hotspots
The travel writer’s quest for spiritual transcendence takes him from Iran to North Korea in a book that rarely illuminates the people he encounters
Tim Adams
15, Jan, 2023 @2:00 PM
The Path of Peace by Anthony Seldon review – a trail of painful history
The writer’s vivid account of walking the Western Front Way illuminates the traumas of the first world war while reassessing his own tumultuous life
Matthew Reisz
08, Nov, 2022 @7:00 AM
Cadaqués, secretive star of Spain’s Costa Brava
This hidden cove has drawn artists for generations but the ex-hippy seaside town has maintained its independent character
Stephen Burgen
01, Nov, 2022 @7:00 AM
In brief: Bibliomaniac; She and Her Cat; The Babel Message – reviews
Madcap tales of Britain’s bookshops, the power of feline friends, and the glories of words, ancient and modern
Hephzibah Anderson
25, Sep, 2022 @4:00 PM
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