For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Autobiography & Memoir & Travel & Reportage

March 2023 Issue

Caroline Moorehead

Planes, Trains & Snowmobiles

Glowing Still: A Woman’s Life on the Road

By Sara Wheeler

October 2020 Issue

Adrian Weale

Blowin’ in the Wind

War and Peacekeeping: Personal Reflections on Conflict and Lasting Peace

By Martin Bell

September 2019 Issue

Daisy Dunn

Better Than Staying at Home

The Pursuit of Art: Travels, Encounters and Revelations

By Martin Gayford

Alex von Tunzelmann

Words of War

What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance

By Carolyn Forché

December 2018 Issue

Sara Wheeler

The White Stuff

The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate

By Nancy Campbell

July 2018 Issue

David Bodanis

Sightseeing Scientist

The Travel Diaries of Albert Einstein: The Far East, Palestine & Spain, 1922–1923

By Ze'ev Rosenkranz (ed)

June 2018 Issue

D D Guttenplan

Hold the Front Page

Reporter: A Memoir

By Seymour M Hersh

Joanna Kavenna

Troubled Waters

Hidden Nature: A Voyage of Discovery

By Alys Fowler

March 2017 Issue

Maria Margaronis

Roads to Rhodope

Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe

By Kapka Kassabova

November 2016 Issue

Jonathan Meades

Inside Job

A Life in Questions

By Jeremy Paxman

June 2016 Issue

Dominic Green

World Traveller Plus

White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World

By Geoff Dyer

Catherine Brown

From Odessa to Paris

Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea

By Teffi (Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Anne Marie Jackson & Irina Steinberg)

Rasputin and Other Ironies

By Teffi (Translated by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Rose France & Anne Marie Jackson)

March 1985 Issue

Charles Sturridge

Labels & Remote People

Labels

By Evelyn Waugh

Remote People

By Evelyn Waugh

June 1989 Issue

Hilary Mantel

To Be a Nomad

What am I Doing Here

By Bruce Chatwin

September 2015 Issue

Philip Womack

Road to No One

Harry Mount’s Odyssey: Ancient Greece in the Footsteps of Odysseus

By Harry Mount

March 2003 Issue

Christopher Ross

Escape To Iberia

Duende: A Journey In Search of Flamenco

By Jason Webster

June 2004 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

Le Coup De Bambou

Tales From The Torrid Zone: Travels in the Deep Tropis

By Alexander Frater

August 2008 Issue

John Clay

Da Nova’s Footsteps

Luca Antara

By Martin Edmond

June 2008 Issue

John Keay

Savouring the Exotic

Halfway to Venus: A One-Armed Journey

By Sarah Anderson

February 2008 Issue

Sara Wheeler

‘Crikey, I’ve fallen for the Hotel Barman’

Going as Far as I Can: The Ultimate Travel Book

By Duncan Fallowell