In the FTWeekend, Max Liu, reviewing Joanna Pocock’s Greyhound, says it’s an account of “an atomised America… but [Pocock] stops her book from being swamped in pessimism by writing vividly about places, authoritatively about environmental emergencies, and letting her sympathy for people shine.”

In the same paper, William Atkins reviews Robert Winder’s Three Rivers, in which the Rhine, the Rhône and the Po serve as emblems of European unity. Atkins says Winder’s narratives “are braided with such subtlety that it’s possible to forget he is describing three rivers and not one”, but he says the author has failed to consider what climate change may do to the waterways, and Europe, in the future.