Ice to see you

Join an expedition ship for an awe-inspiring trip to untouched Antarctica and encounter penguins, seals, whales – and icebergs

Daniel Pembrey picks out his top travel books of 2025

It’s no small thing to be the island that not only inspired one of the best-selling novels of all time, but to be the place where it was written, too. Agatha Christie loved staying at Burgh Island Hot

In this extract from Peter Wise’s new book, an angler is fishing an ice-age lake where the coffin containing an evil monk who was reputed to have come back from the dead was once dumped. But the past is coming back to haunt him…

My last email ended with this: We are both very much looking forward to our Tasman Sea crossing to Nelson, New Zealand. The sea with its infinite cleansing powers should wash away all that earth life

Jane McDonald, 62, tells us about stepping out of her comfort zone in her new globetrotting series