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"This engaging book describes the Norwegian author’s travels round the five Central Asian Stans..."

" After giving a reading for a paltry audience, the writer Gareth E. Rees drives to Herne Bay, parks near the local Morrisons and walks to the car park on the roof. This in itself is not unusual for Rees, who has a rule about always entering these sites on..."

"one can’t discuss mass tourism in politically-correct language. As a powerfully polluting progeny of the consumer society, it can only be condemned..."

"how we’re learning to live underwater..."

"this is a remarkable work filled with wonderful vignettes of Japanese life and sensibility..."

"A Pulitzer-winning memoirist explores the life and art of Siena, as he comes to terms with the death of his Lybian father..."

"Kathleen Jamie’s luminous new essays brim with sense and sensibility..."

"what is so memorable and indeed magical is the way he interweaves the imaginary and the real..."

"An exploration into Putin’s Russia asks what happened to the dream of a united, liberal Europe..."

"the remarkable and poetically written account of how Gange followed the west coast of the British Isles in a sea kayak from Shetland to the English Channel..."

"a warm and insightful account of contemporary Mexican culture, politics and everyday life..."

"Darley’s personal exploration is the ideal antidote to platitudes and prejudice; it is the celebration that the Essex diaspora has been waiting for..."

"When the material world is brought forth for us so beautifully, with such rapt attention and illuminating insight, we are reminded of how lucky we are to be part of it..."

"[An] entertaining book [that] is comprehensively balanced, fair, lucid and subtly witty..."

"Palin’s writing lacks the vigour of his presenting; it isn’t as evocative or inspiring as it should be..."

"some glorious passages of natural history..."

"commendably honest in [its] self-appraisal..."

"his story reads like a fast-paced thriller..."

"A new account relates the rise of regional music scenes to the UK’s loss of heavy industry..."

"it has a definite design – like that of a garden..."

"her drily witty sentences snap like sushki, the crunchy sugared bread rings Russians eat with their coffee..."

"Could a gentler, mutually beneficial co‑operation between species help shape a green future?..."

"A diligent account of the country’s recent travails — and its slow, painful route out of them..."

"Epic Continent brings out the many ironies of literary and political history..."