While preparing to update for the Telegraph travel desk a “what to read where” guide for the summer, I came across a useful series I’d forgotten about that my colleagues on the literary desk commissioned a few years ago: “Flights of the imagination”, in which writers offer literary tours of the places they know best. Among the contributors are Colm Tóibín on Spain, Elif Shafak on Turkey, Nicholas Shakespeare on Australia,  Joanna Kavenna on the Far North and — one I’ve already mentioned elsewhere —  Michael Jacobs on Latin America.