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    • Thursday, 22 June, 2023
      Summer Books 2023
      Best summer books of 2023: Travel

      Tom Robbins selects his best mid-year reads

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      Steeple Chasing by Peter Ross — tales of a church-crawler

      A variety of eccentrics illuminate this tour of Britain’s religious sites

      A church and steeple
    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      The Half Known Life by Pico Iyer — seeking paradise in the modern world

      The ultimate destination in this latest book by the pilgrim-cum-travel writer is more a state of being than a place

    • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      A Line in the World by Dorthe Nors — travels on the wild side

      The Danish novelist takes a personal, poetic trip around the wave-lashed landscape of her childhood

      Rays of sunshine filter through dark clouds over a green field with a white church and trees in the distance
    • Monday, 27 June, 2022
      Summer Books 2022
      What books should you read this summer?

      Listen to our Twitter discussion with FT literary editor Frederick Studemann, deputy books editor Laura Battle and FT Weekend podcast host Lilah Raptopoulos

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    • Wednesday, 22 June, 2022
      Summer Books 2022
      Best summer books of 2022: Travel

      Tom Robbins selects his best mid-year reads

    • Monday, 20 June, 2022
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      Summer Books 2022

      From politics, economics and history to art, food and, of course, fiction — FT writers and critics choose their favourite reads of the year so far

    • Friday, 4 February, 2022
      Nilanjana Roy
      Vagabonds and vanishing acts

      A disappearance in the Himalayas is the subject of a new book exploring our need to ‘find ourselves’ by escaping the familiar

    • Monday, 15 November, 2021
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      Best Books of the Year 2021

      From politics, economics and history to art, food and, of course, fiction — FT writers and critics pick their favourite reads in our annual round-up of publishing highlights

    • Thursday, 24 June, 2021
      FT SeriesSummer books 2021
      Summer books of 2021: Travel

      Tom Robbins selects his best mid-year reads

    • Tuesday, 18 May, 2021
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Walks on the wild sides

      From desert to jungle, Nick Hunt takes a journey by train and on foot to the ‘outlands’ of Europe

      Bialowieza forest in Poland, a Unesco World Heritage Site
    • Monday, 23 November, 2020
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      Best Books of the Year 2020

      From ideas for rethinking economics and politics to pure escapism, FT writers and critics choose their favourite titles of what has been an extraordinary year for books

    • Wednesday, 18 November, 2020
      FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2020
      Best books of 2020: Travel

      Tom Robbins selects his must-read titles

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      FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2020
      FT readers — what is your favourite book of 2020?

      Tell us your recommendation and pick up a few tips for your own reading list too

    • Thursday, 23 July, 2020
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Life lessons: France’s literary heroes revisited

      Two authors re-examine the colourful lives and artistic impact of some of the great 20th-century figures

      Françoise Sagan, author of ‘Bonjour Tristesse’, pictured in Paris in 1955
    • Thursday, 25 June, 2020
      FT SeriesSummer Books 2020
      Summer books of 2020: Travel

      Tom Robbins selects his best mid-year reads

    • Friday, 17 April, 2020
      ReviewFiction
      A Theatre for Dreamers — ouzo, intrigue and Leonard Cohen

      Polly Samson’s reimagining of the lives of the 1960s bohemian set is as a good as a Greek holiday

      Two people wearing back packs and walking along the shore of Hydra, Greece. October 1960 (photo by James Burke/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)
    • Friday, 28 February, 2020
      Review
      The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts — hunting for treasure

      How the quest for long forgotten instruments played out as a literary adventure in Russia’s far east

      Vladimir Biryukov, the president of the Siberian Piano Tuners Association and head tuner at the Novosibirsk Philharmonic, with the Steinway grand he believes was played by the Leningrad Philharmonic-in-exile.
    • Friday, 14 February, 2020
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      The Colour of the Sky After Rain — the art of doing business in China

      Tessa Keswick’s mix of memoir and travelogue goes behind the scenes of China’s highest echelons

      H,G Ponting in Asia 1900 - 1906, China, The Five arched Pailow at the Ming Tombs in China where members of the Imperial Dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644 are buried  (Photo by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)
    • Friday, 24 January, 2020
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      To the Lake: A Balkan Journey of War and Peace

      On the trail of family roots in eastern Europe, Kapka Kassabova shares lessons about identity and conflict

      Sunser over the famous St John church at Kaneo in Ohrid, by lake Ohrid in Macedonia in the Balkans in Eastern Europe
    • Friday, 3 January, 2020
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar — exquisitely told

      A philosophical exploration of death, love and art

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    • Friday, 3 January, 2020
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      Along the Trenches — a thought-provoking travelogue on eastern Europe

      Navid Kermani travels Europe’s frontiers to explore the legacy of conflict and modernity

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    • Friday, 22 November, 2019
      Best Books of the Year 2019
      Best books of 2019: Travel

      Tom Robbins selects his must-read titles

    • Friday, 20 September, 2019
      Review
      A Beginner’s Guide to Japan by Pico Iyer — purists beware

      An impish outlier in a slew of books for visitors to the Rugby World Cup and Tokyo Olympics

      Pedestrians cross the street at a crosswalk at Omotesando shopping district in Tokyo, Japan March 15, 2018. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon - RC1968A9C9F0
    • Friday, 6 September, 2019
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      Sovietistan by Erika Fatland — mesmerising trip across central Asia

      Modernity and tradition clash in the surprisingly diverse post-Soviet states of this fascinating travelogue

      People cross the road with a dromedary camel and a calf. Turkmenistan Nick Hannes/ Panos Pictures
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