MOONLIGHT EXPRESS: AROUND THE WORLD BY NIGHT TRAIN (HB)

Taking in Austria's Nightjet, Scotland's Caledonian Sleeper, and Finland's Santa Claus Express among many others, Monisha Rajesh invites us on a multi-year adventure aboard the world's most beguiling trains. Along the way she samples reindeer stew on the night train to Norway, sips on pisco sours while riding the Belmond Andean Explorer to the shores of Lake Titicaca, and considers a game of cricket down a carriage on the Shalimar Express. By turns romantic and hilarious, Moonlight Express drops us back at the platform before sunrise.