The Grand Trunk Road by Tim Smith – review
A photographic journey along the main artery of northern India throws up deep riches from history and life, writes Sean O'Hagan
To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron – review
Triggered by a death in the family, Colin Thubron's Himalayan journey of remembrance is daring and brilliant, writes Joanna Kavenna
Letters From London and Europe by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa – review
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's shrewd and witty travel dispatches are a complete joy, writes Stephen Smith
Blistering barnacles, Tintin, it’s the rose-red city!
In the days before TV, Tintin took his readers to places they had never seen before. Will a new Tintin expedition to Petra, in Jordan, inspire modern-day fans of the comic-book hero to follow in his globetrotting footsteps?
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Millions of women have fallen for Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir of self-discovery. Why, asks Rachel Cusk, as Eat, Pray, Love opens as a Julia Roberts blockbuster
Walking to Hollywood by Will Self
Beneath the wit and contempt of Will Self's fictionalised memoir M John Harrison detects something darker
From Stieg Larsson to Trainspotting: the best modern literary book tours
You've read the decade's hottest books. Now visit the locations
The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief by VS Naipaul
VS Naipaul is often blinkered but he still sees things in Africa that others miss, says Aminatta Forna
Driving Home by Jonathan Raban
Jonathan Raban steers his way through 20 years in the USA in a fascinating colleciton of essays, writes Tim Adams
The Dead Yard wins Dolman travel book award
Claire Armitstead: Ian Thomson's investigation of Jamaica goes beyond the definition of a travel book – so was he the right winner?
The Dead Yard by Ian Thomson
You can smell the sweat, sex and ganja in this 'story of modern Jamaica', says Wally Dalloway
Andes by Michael Jacobs
Benedict Allen finds an impressive survey avoids the dreaded 'inner journey'
Alan Sillitoe obituary
Writer whose accounts of working-class life included Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
The Future History of the Arctic by Charles Emmerson; After the Ice by Alun Anderson; True North by Gavin Francis
The Arctic's future is vital to the human race, as a clutch of new books suggests, says Robin McKie