In her new book, Broken Threads (Fourth Estate), the BBC journalist Mishal Husain offers a history of the partition of India as seen through the eyes of her grandparents, all four of whom relocated to the new state of Pakistan. In the Financial Times last weekend, Husain reported on a journey she made into the northern reaches of Pakistan, guided by an account written by her grandfather, Shahid Hamid, 70 years ago.

In The New York Times, the Argentine author Samanta Schweblin, whose own books include the short-story collection Seven Empty Houses, suggests how to read yourself into the city of Buenos Aires.

Today is publication day for William Dalrymple’s The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World (Bloomsbury), which has been winning him praise in Britain (in publications such as the Literary Review and The Scotsman, and on Twitter from Robert Macfarlane) and in India (in The Hindu).