Claire Scobie’s life-transforming Tibet experience when she met Ani, a nomad woman

Davin Grann documents the search for Fawcett, a heroic explorer who went missing while looking for the ‘Lost City of Z’ in the Amazon basin, in 1925

Kalder, in Strange Telescopes, talks about the doomed glories of imperial Russia

A guide to eating out in the streets and bylanes of India

A collection of thoughtful, satirical, passionate even whimsical pieces introducing readers to the ‘new emerging Kerala’

The book is an account of Delhi in the making and contains lavishly printed archival images

A reporter’s collection of reworked columns and sketches

Damon Galgut’s book consists of three separate but organically united stories, set in three different parts of the world

Matthew Mohlke and Slovenian endurance swimmer, Martin Strel, get together to write about Strel’s swimming venture across the Amazon

Mountaineer Jon Krakauer’s detailed account of the disaster that took place on Mt Everest in 1996

Rutherford brings us the story of Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur, the founder of the Mughal dynasty in India

Ivan Vladislavic’s book on Johannesburg brings together snapshots, events, meditations, all in first person

Anita Sharma travelled with the Bakkarwals of Jammu and Kashmir to tell the world how this nomadic tribe lives

Talking about his trip to the Soviet Union in the 1920s, Shaukat Usmani complements political details with a pastoral narrative