The Sunday Times' chief fiction critic Peter Kemp picks his best novels and stories about travel from the past 60 years (£).

Skios Michael Frayn
The Mission House Carys Davies
Hunters in the Dark Lawrence Osborne
The Two Faces of January Patricia Highsmith
Cross Channel Julian Barnes
The Mandelbaum Gate Muriel Spark
Bodily Harm Margaret Atwood
Golden HIll Francis Spufford
Foreign Affairs Alison Lurie
Haroun and the Sea of Stories Salman Rushdie