Iain MacGregor, author of The Lighthouse of Stalingrad, and Tom Parfitt, a reporter for The Times, whose High Caucasus: A Mountain Quest in Russia’s Haunted Hinterland is due out in May, will be comparing notes on their travels in Russia at the Stanfords Travel Writers Festival, part of the Destinations show at Olympia, London, next week. Other writers on the bill include James Crawford (The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World), Mary Novakovich (My Family and Other Enemies: Life and Travels in Croatia’s Hinterland), Karen Edwards (The Responsible Traveller) and Nicholas Crane (Latitude).