Travel Writing
Celtic arcadia
Wales in winter is special, and there is something very special about an old Welsh longhouse
Alpine lyricism
Each day mimics the last, ending in a mountain refuge Holy Trinity of soup, fire and bed
Sara Wheeler on art was a winner
By telling her own story, Wheeler caught the ear of thousands like her
Blood, squalor, and a taste of things to come
Japan’s brutal invasion of China witnessed by four very different literary adventurers
Silk Road splendour
The bare plain is now home to a million souls, their mosques, cathedrals and some very exclusive hotels
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Burmese days: for good and ill
There was much naivety in depicting the Anglo-Burmese engagement as one of mutual enlightenment
Alcohol and Islam
An English novelist travels the Muslim world in search of a drink
Patrick Leigh Fermor’s doomed Europe
His writing beautifully describes the older Europe that we lost
