Lonely Planet's Better Than Fiction 2

Edited by Don George and published this November, Better Than Fiction 2 is Lonely Planet's all-new globe-trotting sequel to its acclaimed 2012 best-selling collection of real-life travel tales from famous fiction writers and up-and-coming authors.

Settings for these true stories written especially for Lonely Planet – by turns funny, poignant and occasionally unsettling – roam from Azerbaijan to Vietnam, via Iceland, India, Samoa, Scotland and beyond.

“Better Than Fiction 2 celebrates the power of storytelling and risk-taking, and the peril and promise that travel presents,” writes Don George in the book's Introduction. “The ultimate message these artful, heartful tales all convey is that stepping into the world alchemizes adventures even the most imaginative novelist could never foresee – and leads to resolutions that transmute our lives more rarely and richly than any of us could dream, even better than fiction too.”

Don George has edited eight previous Lonely Planet literary anthologies, including An Innocent Abroad, Better Than Fiction, A Moveable Feast, The Kindness of Strangers, By the Seat of My Pants, and Tales from Nowhere. Don is the author of The Way of Wanderlust: The Best Travel Writing of Don George and of the best-selling Lonely Planet Guide to Travel Writing. He is Editor at Large and Columnist for National Geographic Traveler, Editor of the Words & Wanderlust section of BBC Travel, and Editor of Geographic Expeditions' blog, Wanderlust: Literary Journeys for the Discerning Traveler.

True Travel Adventures from 30 Great Fiction Writers:

Steven Amsterdam * Natalie Baszile * Marie-Helene Bertino
Stefan Merrill Block * Sophie Cunningham * Rebecca Dinerstein
Avi Duckor-Jones * Dave Eggers * Karen Joy Fowler * Steven Hall
M.J. Hyland * Suzanne Joinson * Lloyd Jones * Porochista Khakpour
Fiona Kidman *Lily King * Catherine Lacey * Marina Lewycka
Jack Livings * Alexander McCall Smith * Lydia Millet * Christina Nichol
Keija Parssinen * DBC Pierre *Francine Prose * Mandy Sayer * David Shafer
Jane Smiley * Shirley Streshinsky *Aliya Whiteley

LONELY PLANET'S BETTER THAN FICTION 2

Published November 2015
320pp | 197mm x 128mm | Hardback
AU $27.99 | NZ $29.99