Hay Segovia: Three Englishmen in Spain
Paul Hamilos: This year's Hay festival in Segovia showed Spaniards peering at themselves through outsiders' eyes
The other three valleys
With few Brits, no wild après-ski and deserted slopes, Champoluc is the perfect get-away-from-it-all resort, says Tom Robbins
On the British balti trail
Rory MacLean reviews Ziauddin Sardar's entertaining journey to unravel the diverse threads of the British Asian experience
Melting pot
Review: Indian Takeaway by Hardeep Singh Kohli Nicholas Clee chews over the link between what we eat and who we are says Nicholas Clee
A whole world of trouble
Rory MacLean on Andrew Mueller's 'irreverent and jovial jaunt of a guidebook around our violent and baffling modern world'
It’s time to forget about ticking off things to do before we die
Alexander Chancellor: Its only useful function is to provide easy entertainment for dreaming couch potatoes
An exile back on Main Street
Review: Divine Magnetic Lands - A Journey in America by Timothy O'Grady This timely book attempts to take the temperature of contemporary America by travelling it, writes Sean O'Hagan
The expert panel
This week's question ... which is your favourite travel book?
Travellers’ tales
Author, author: In the 30s boredom forced out many writers - Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Peter Fleming, Robert Byron - from Britain into Asia and Africa, says Pankaj Mishra
Where have all the psychos gone?
Review: Fishing in Utopia by Andrew BrownIgnore what its crime writers say: it turns out Sweden isn't brimming with neo-Nazis, paedophiles and jihadis after all
Matinee idol of the travel book
Julian Evans's Semi-Invisible Man reveals that an unerring eye for the telling detail made Norman Lewis a writer of genius, says Sara Wheeler
Me and my travels: Sarah Anderson
Sarah Anderson, founder, the Travel Bookshop
Every guidebook writer has their pink performing poodles
News that a Lonely Planet writer had been less than diligent didn't surprise former guidebook author Carole Cadwalladr. In fact, she has a confession of her own ...
Print as you go
Travel writing has found a new platform in the form of self-publishing websites. Rory MacLean finds out how the new breed of wanna-be Chatwins shape up
Following in the footsteps of a literary hero
Novelist Geoff Dyer crisscrosses the globe after DH Lawrence