Join the travel writer for a discussion of his celebrated book The Old Ways at Kings Place on 29 July
November 2013
The Observer's books of the year
Writers and critics on the best books of 2013
October 2013
Man Booker contenders 2013 – a quick recap
Jim Crace is the narrow favourite, while Colm Tóibín may provoke the most serious soul-searching… Robert McCrum assesses the six contenders
September 2013
The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos by Patrick Leigh Fermor – review
Robert Macfarlane leads Warwick prize shortlist
July 2013
Point of view
Richard Mabey: in defence of nature writing
Steven Poole criticised nature writers – and their readers – for whimsy and for idealising the non-human world. He was wrong
Is our love of nature writing bourgeois escapism?
We can't get enough of books about discovering yourself in the wilderness. What's it all about, asks Steven Poole
Nicholas Lezard's choice
The Old Ways: a Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane – review
Nicholas Lezard's paperback of the week: In the final book in his trilogy about landscape and the human heart, Robert Macfarlane turns his attention to sacred encounters and wild walks
June 2013
Holloway by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood and Dan Richards – review
A slim, but poetic and beautifully illustrated book about travels on sunken paths makes a powerful impression on Ben East
May 2013
Top 10s
Wu Ming's top 10 utopias
From William Gibson to Robert Macfarlane, the novel-writing Italian collective pick books that construct utopian worlds and explore our impulse to build them
Point of view
Making a book from a lump of lead
Robert Macfarlane on how a sunken lane inspired a handmade book, Holloway
Rereading
Robert Macfarlane: rereading Climbers by M John Harrison
Robert Macfarlane on a foray outside the world of sci-fi by MJ Harrison, 'among the most brilliant novelists writing today'
November 2012
2012 in review
Books of the year 2012
Booker prize appoints Robert Macfarlane to chair 2013 judges
June 2012
Rites of way: behind the pilgrimage revival
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane – review
May 2012
Book of the week
The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane – review
Robert Macfarlane: 'Paths are human; they are the traces of our relationships'
February 2010
Author, author
Robert Macfarlane on filming in Essex
My dreams of film-making glamour were quickly dispelled by the graft involved
