Among books included in a roundup yesterday by The Sunday Times of the best recently published non-fiction are Jan Morris: A Life by Sara Wheeler (Faber, £25), The Traveller: The Revolutionary Life of George Forster and his Search for Humanity by Andrea Wulf (Allen Lane, £30), and two published last year and now out in paperback: Lone Wolf by Adam Weymouth (Penguin, £11.99); and To the Sea by Train: The Golden Age of Railway Travel by Andrew Martin (Profile, £11.99).

In a similar roundup earlier this month in the Financial Times, the paper’s travel editor, Tom Robbins, chose The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness by Cal Flyn (William Collins, £20), a writer who, he says, “packs more research, miles and adventure into each chapter than many travel writers invest in their entire book”; Lifeboat at the End of the World: A Volunteer’s Story by Dominic Gregory (William Collins, £18.99); and The Fire in the Mountain: Sicily, Etna and Her People by Helena Attlee (Particular Books, £25). Carl Wilkinson, offering his choice of literary non-fiction, included Sara Wheeler’s Jan Morris: A Life, an “engrossing” biography that is “more than a match for its fascinating and at times elusive subject”.