Author: Rajesh, Monisha

Trains & railways: general interest

Published on 28 August 2025 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 336 pages, Maps, plates section and chapter heading illustrations
242 x 162 x 35 | 578g

From the author of the smash-hit Around the World in 80 Trains comes a new globetrotting journey – this time celebrating the peculiar magic and mayhem of the night train.

‘Nobody writes trains like Monisha Rajesh’ Irvine Welsh’Hugely entertaining’ The Times’A moonlit express train to travel writing heaven. This is Monisha Rajesh’s wittiest and most irresistible adventure yet’ William DalrympleThe wonder of the night train: headlamps ablaze, passengers boarding after sunset and leaving before sunrise, slipping in and out of compartments unseen. For Monisha Rajesh, the singular thrill of sleeper trains inspired a new journey around the world one filled with moonli