Jan Morris: Life from Both Sides review – flights of fancy
Paul Clements tracks Morris’s pinballing writing career from Everest to empire and beyond in this engaging biography
September 2022
Book of the day
High by Erika Fatland review – a tour of the Himalayas, without the cliches
An anthropologist establishes a unique rapport with the people she encounters on this unromantic trek through the mountains
June 2022
Red Sauce Brown Sauce by Felicity Cloake review – a quest for the great British breakfast
A cycling tour of regions and delicacies, from hog’s pudding in Cornwall to honey in Ceredigion, is as funny as it is enlightening
March 2022
Readers' travel tips
‘A group of drinkers with a writing problem’: readers’ favourite literary haunts
From the pubs of Dublin to rural Provence, this week’s tipsters sought out the locations behind the books that inspired them
January 2022
Readers' travel tips
‘Her lust for adventure was honey for me’: readers’ favourite travel books
From dodging the Nazis in Italy to running around New Zealand, our tipsters found inspiration and insight to help them forget the pandemic
May 2021
Why I’m exploring Glasgow with a 1930s guidebook
Our writer tours his home town using a vintage tourist guide – and gets a new perspective on a city that remains nostalgic yet irreverent
November 2020
Island Dreams by Gavin Francis; I Am an Island by Tamsin Calidas – review
The reality of solitude and the beauty of islands animate these two different but highly absorbing memoirs
April 2020
Where now for travel? Lonely Planet closures point to an uncertain future
As the travel publisher closes its Melbourne and London offices, a guidebook writer asks what’s next for an industry in crisis
January 2019
Take the long view: Chile revisited
In three trips over 25 years, writer Sara Wheeler has discovered as much about this South American country as she has about herself
November 2018
The first book interview
Kate Harris: 'Children can’t understand why we don't make dramatic changes to save the world'
On a 6,000-mile bicycle journey along the Silk Road, the author explored the notion of wildness – the Earth’s and her own
October 2018
Sri Lanka ranked top country for travel in 2019 by Lonely Planet
Improved train services mean it’s easier than ever to explore Sri Lanka but campaigners warn a surge in tourism could ruin its natural beauty
August 2018
Other lives
Mike Ivory obituary
Other lives: Travel writer fascinated by the highways and byways of Slovakia
Yes, this really is the best fish supper money can buy
The Bay in Stonehaven – the town that gave us the deep-fried Mars bar – was last week voted Britain’s top food destination
The UK's best fish and chips listed on global foodie bucket list
An Aberdeenshire chippie, a San Sebastián pintxos crawl and toasted grasshoppers in Oaxaca hit the mark in Lonely Planet’s new book of the world’s most memorable food experiences
February 2018
From the Green Book to Facebook, how black people still need to outwit racists in rural America
Night Trains by Andrew Martin – a nostalgic lament for a bygone age
December 2017
Travel guides to segregated US for black Americans reissued
The Green Books – now reprinted in facsimile – were a popular workaround for travellers excluded from many hotels and restaurants by colour bars
October 2017
Weak pound makes UK a ‘value destination’ for foreign tourists says Lonely Planet
The travel guide publisher’s annual Best in Travel list puts UK in the budget bracket, while naming Chile best country and Seville best city
August 2017
Travelling Light by Alastair Sawday review – the king of quirky B&Bs
A roll-top bath, organic food, local wine? Sawday’s taste is easy to parody but hard to resist, in this envy-making memoir
May 2017
Leeds ranked fifth on Lonely Planet's Best In Europe 2017 list
West Yorkshire city has been recommended to travellers thanks to its flourishing cultural scene and thriving nightlife
