Tuesday, January 27

I cannot recommend more highly a book called Imperium, reportage from Russia by the late, great Ryszard Kapuscinski.

Has anybody tried using Google's My Maps for plotting the way to their house, their favourite pubs or places they have visited/ photographed/ reported from around the world? Will we ever be allowed to get away from our screens?

I have a book launch at Stamfords in London tonight (a travel guide to the Silk Road, since you ask, in which I played a small but not insignificant role), so I may be absent. You will not notice.

The next Meejabub is tomorrow (Wednesday), at the Hotel du Vin in Tunbridge Wells as usual.