Colin Thubron

Vintage Voyages- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind. Colin Thubron's beautiful prose unfolds along the Silk Road, unearthing a richly layered past on his most ambitious journey. On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China...

Follow our greatest travel writer (and rusty Mandarin speaker) along the far eastern river that separates Russia from China, the two great ex-Communist giants, taking in Mongolia, Siberia, and the Sea of Japan. The Amur River is described as "Thubron on top form. Richly detailed, immaculately written and full of insights and encounters that bring a complex corner of the...

Passage is a short novel with a wide canvas—a long-simmering love triangle, set in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, from the Booker-longlisted novelist and travel writer. 'She was standing at the boat’s prow. He thought—this is how I will remember her, looking into the wind, serene. This will outlast whatever is to come.' Kathleen lies awake in the operating theatre...