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Sara Wheeler

January 2019

  • Cape Horn/Antarctic Expedition boats at anchor on the Beagle Channel.<br>Cape Horn/Antarctic Expedition boats at anchor on the Beagle Channel in front of the Cordillera Darwin mountain range. Puerto Williams, Isla Navarino - Chile

    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

September 2018

  • HMS Erebus and HMS Terror on John Franklin’s ill-fated 1845 Arctic expedition .

    Erebus: The Story of a Ship by Michael Palin – review

    The TV star’s vivid memoir of HMS Erebus and its epic polar expeditions is lively and diligent

August 2018

  • Night view of Rio de Janeiro

    Book clinic
    Book clinic: has social media killed travel writing?

    Our expert answers with a resolute no, and issues a challenge to the Twitter generation

July 2018

  • Dunes in the Empty Quarter, Oman.

    Book of the day
    The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places review – from Taklamakan to Burning Man

    William Atkins’s study of desert life in seven journeys is wide-ranging, deep – and far from dry…

December 2017

  • SONS OF LIBERTY: STATUE The Sons of Liberty pulling down the statue of King George III on the Bowling Green, New York, on the night of 9 July 1776. Color engraving, by John C. McRae.<br>GCL3141581 SONS OF LIBERTY: STATUE The Sons of Liberty pulling down the statue of King George III on the Bowling Green, New York, on the night of 9 July 1776. Color engraving, by John C. McRae.; (add.info.: SONS OF LIBERTY: STATUE The Sons of Liberty pulling down the statue of King George III on the Bowling Green, New York, on the night of 9 July 1776. Color engraving, by John C. McRae.); Photo © Granger; PERMISSION REQUIRED FOR NON EDITORIAL USAGE; USA RIGHTS NOT AVAILABLE; out of copyright PLEASE NOTE: Bridgeman Images works with the owner of this image to clear permission. If you wish to reproduce this image, please inform us so we can clear permission for you.

    Beneath Another Sky by Norman Davies – review

    This footloose historian’s journey across the planet is gripping, gruelling – and a great read

April 2017

  • the durrell family at their villa on corfu

    The Durrells of Corfu by Michael Haag review – animal magic

    Michael Haag conjures up the Durrell family’s prewar Mediterranean idyll, and the young Gerald’s first menagerie

February 2017

  • Martha Gellhorn Mary Kingsley Sybille Bedford Gertrude Bell composite

    Where have all the female travel writers gone?

  • Emilia Pechinkova, a 24-years-old Bulgarian Pomak (Bulgarian speaking Muslims) bride poses for a photograph following the "gelina" or face painting ceremony carried out by female guests and relatives in preparation for her three-day wedding ceremony in the village of Draginovo, 100 kms southeast of Sofia on April 22, 2016. Bulgaria's Muslim population is one of the highest in the European Union. During the Communist regime religious rituals were not tolerated, and Muslims were forced to abandon wearing their traditional wedding outfits. Recently, more young Pomak women want to include traditional wedding customs that were forbidden during the regime, regardless of their secular lifestyles and the high cost of such a wedding. / AFP PHOTO / NIKOLAY DOYCHINOVNIKOLAY DOYCHINOV/AFP/Getty Images

    Book of the day
    Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova – review

October 2016

  • Gillon Aitken in Tangiers in the early 1980s.

    Gillon Aitken obituary

  • jan morris at her home in north wales

    Book of the day
    Ariel: A Literary Life of Jan Morris by Derek Johns; Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor – review

May 2016

  • Brown Hare Lepus europaeus alert on edge of arable field at dawn Norfolk spring<br>F33P0G Brown Hare Lepus europaeus alert on edge of arable field at dawn Norfolk spring

    The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland by John Lewis-Stempel – review

    The environmentalist’s account of the year he spent restoring wildlife to a field is enlightening and stylish

September 2015

  • Storm clouds forming over a pier

    Weatherland: Writers & Artists Under English Skies review – it’s not always raining in our art

    Alexandra Harris widens her scope with this study of the relationship of artists and writers with sun, wind and snow

May 2015

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    The Ancient Art of Growing Old by Tom Payne review – how to improve with age

    This reflection on ageing is also an intelligent and witty self-help book

February 2015

  • Tahmima Anam, Reading the world

    Reading the World: Confessions of a Literary Explorer review – what literature reveals about a nation’s identity

    Ann Morgan reads her way across the globe in this entertaining blog-turned-book, writes Sara Wheeler

June 2014

  • Marie-Antoinette with a Rose by Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun

    How to Ruin a Queen review – 'narrative history at its best'

    A jewel scam involving Marie Antoinette that scandalised Europe is brought vividly to life in this rousing ancien regime caper, says Sara Wheeler

February 2014

  • Justin St Germain, books

    Son of a Gun by Justin St Germain – review

    Justin St Germain's account of his mother's murder and how he dealt with it is frank and sad without ever veering into self-pity, writes Sara Wheeler

January 2014

  • Sea birds and freighter, Baja California

    Down to the Sea in Ships by Horatio Clare – review

    Sailors emerge as the heroes in a lyrical account of the modern container shipping industry, writes Sara Wheeler

August 2013

  • Suzanne harrington, books

    The Liberty Tree by Suzanne Harrington – review

    Suzanne Harrington's breezy account of her three decade-long battle with alcohol comes good in the end, writes Sara Wheeler

June 2013

  • rebecca solnit

    The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit – review

    This gripping account of a daughter coping with her mother's Alzheimer's showcases the talents of an American writer worthy of wider recognition, writes Sara Wheeler

April 2013

  • Emma Brockes's grandfather, Jimmy, her grandmother and mother, Pauline

    She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me by Emma Brockes – review

    Emma Brockes's memoir is a daughter's voyage of discovery and hymn to her mother's childhood hell, writes Sara Wheeler
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