The Cruise of the Rolling Junk by F Scott Fitzgerald – review

F Scott Fitzgerald's picaresque memoir reflects the American obsession with the automobile, writes Lettie Ransley

Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria by Noo Saro-Wiwa – review

Noo Saro-Wiwa's sharply observed Nigerian travelogue reveals another side to the African giant, says Ian Birrell

Hugh Carless obituary

Distinguished diplomat who was immortalised in Eric Newby's A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, the 1958 account of their two-man expedition

Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria by Noo Saro-Wiwa

Adewale Maja-Pearce on a journey from Roedean to a place of poverty

A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor: From Safei to Dad

From a child to a father, a 'short letter with 300 pages attached'

Patrick Leigh Fermor’s final volume will be published

Long-awaited conclusion to revered account of walk across Europe set to come out in 2013

Mafia State: How One Reporter Became the Enemy of the Brutal New Russia by Luke Harding – review

Luke Harding's account of his time in Russia is sobering reading, writes Edward Lucas

Author scents a hit with scratch-n-sniff guide to New York

New York, PHEW YORK includes aromas of everything from hot dogs to horse manure

Jason Goodwin’s top 10 books about Turkey

Encompassing poetry, history, fiction and even cookery, the author picks his favourite reading about this 'elusive and contradictory' country

Where not to spend your bank holiday: a guide to Britain’s worst days out

Crap Days Out celebrates the worst tourist traps Britain has to offer – but having a miserable bank holiday weekend is as British as half-cut morris dancers, says co-author Gareth Rubin

Tony Parsons jets into Heathrow airport as writer-in-residence

The resident author will be scouring the terminals for characters to revive the 'airport fiction' genre

White Fever by Jacek Hugo-Bader – review

Luke Harding takes a trip across troubled Russia

Jonathan Raban: captain of seagoing literature

The marine world has inspired much great writing, but one author, for me, is the real main man

Nagaland by Jonathan Glancey – review

Jonathan Glancey's account of India's troubled Nagaland state brings welcome attention to a neglected area, says Sanjay Subrahmanyam

On the Road to Babadag by Andrzej Stasiuk – review

A eulogy for the peripheral corners of eastern Europe impresses James Hopkin

To the River by Olivia Laing – review

Jonathan Bate follows a well-trodden path to the sea

A war hero and a travel writer of grace: Paddy was the ideal English scholar

Patrick Leigh Fermor, who has died aged 96, was one of 'God's intimate loners'. Quirkily bold and full of fun, he reflected the easygoing confidence of the best of Englishness. The doyenne of travel writing assesses his unique genius

Travel writing great Patrick Leigh Fermor dies aged 96

Friends and colleagues pay tribute to author revered for his account of walking across Europe

Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor obituary

Highly regarded travel writer and heroic wartime SOE officer

Ox Travels: Meetings With Remarkable Travel Writers – review

From an embarrassing tryst with a healer to an encounter with Zimbabwean diamond miners, this anthology proves that the art of travel writing is flourishing, says Ruaridh Nicoll

Rereading: Naples ’44 by Norman Lewis

Norman Lewis's travel book Naples '44 is justly celebrated for its portrait of a war-torn city and its desperate people. It also contains, argues Gillian Darley, the best account of the eruption of Vesuvius

Colin Thubron on the literature of place

We are all virtual travellers now, but familiarity may be a mirage, says Colin Thubron

Wish You Were Here: England on Sea by Travis Elborough – review

Travis Elborough's book covering three centuries of the seaside is amusing, unsentimental and occasionally unkind about an English institution, writes Lara Feigel