Writing about travel and place features strongly on the bill for the annual Queen’s Park Book Festival in London at the end of the month (August 30-31). Speakers include Rob Cowen, whose most recent book is The North Road, Julian Evans (Undefeatable: Odesa in Love & War), Lyse Doucet (The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan), Sophie Elmhirst (Maurice and Maralyn: An extraordinary true story of shipwreck, survival and love) and Matthew Beaumont (Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London).