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