Victoria Glendinning

Sara Wheeler, Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica.; Victoria Glendinning; Toby Litt, Corpsing.

What constitutes great travel writing? To mark the launch of a series of iconic travel titles from the Vintage Travel Classics range, three contemporary writers nominate their candidates. Sara Wheeler - explorer, journalist and author of Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica - selects Apsley Cherry-Garrard's undisputed masterpiece of polar literature, The Worst Journey in the World. Staking a claim for warmer climes, award-winning biographer Victoria Glendinning champions Elizabeth Bowen's A Time in Rome. Finally Toby Litt - author of Corpsing, Journey into Space and, most recently, King Death - reveals his love of Robert Byron's delightfully eccentric The Road to Oxiana. (DeadGoodBooks)… (more)

Kate Mosse; Hardeep Singh Kohli; Victoria Glendinning

Tickets: £10. "To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the prestigious Man Booker Prize, Victoria Glendinning, former Booker judge and biographer of Leonard Woolf, will chair a book club where members of a literary panel champion their own favourite Booker novel, as well as those that did not make it. The panel will include writer, presenter, comedian and judge of this year’s Prize, Hardeep Singh Kohli; Kate Mosse, co-founder of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, hugely successful author of Labyrinth (Richard and Judy Book of the Year), Sepulchre, and presenter of Radio 4’s A Good Read." (christiguc)… (more)