There’s more praise in the November Literary Review for Adam Weymouth’s Lone Wolf (Hutchinson Heinemann, £18.99), which was short-listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize (won last week by the Australian author Helen Garner for her collected diaries, How to End a Story). Miranda Seymour says Weymouth’s is a “spectacular book. I’ve seldom read such a vivid articulation of the pleasure of travelling alone, even when heavily forested Slovenia offers little to charm the eye.”

Nigel Andrew, in the same magazine, is less impressed by Mariana Enríquez’s Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys (Granta, £20). He says “there are serviceable descriptions and histories of the places she visits”, but “her attention keeps wandering back to the subject she loves best: herself…”

There’s also a review from Patrick Galbraith of a new book from Rory Stewart, that political outsider who stood for prime minister, was sacked by the Conservative Party and is now co-hosting (with Alastair Campbell) one of Britain’s most popular podcasts, The Rest is Politics. Middleland: Dispatches from the Borders (Jonathan Cape, £22) is a compilation of columns Stewart wrote for a local paper when he was MP for Penrith and The Border. They were, Galbraith says, “often produced in the dead of night (sometimes in the bath) after a day’s work, and yet they are very good indeed. His accounts of Cumbria as a sort of lost land are stark pieces of reportage.”