Read Disgrace

A butler drives to Cornwall and considers what he gave up for a lord; Ishiguro's Booker.

Fragments about travel, anatomy and a Chopin's heart smuggled to Warsaw; Tokarczuk's Booker International.

A Seoul woman stops eating meat and her family cannot bear it; the Booker International that led to Han Kang's Nobel.

A diver visits the same octopus every day for a year in a South African kelp forest.

Flat-topped mountain over Cape Town.

The rocky headland where the Atlantic and Indian Oceans meet, with baboons, ostriches and the Cape Point lighthouse.

Visit Cape Town, South Africa's coastal capital. Take the cable car up Table Mountain (flat-topped peak with panoramic city and ocean views), explore the historic Robben Island (where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned), stroll through the colorful Bo-Kaap neighborhood (known for its brightly painted houses and Cape Malay culture), and see African penguins at Boulders Beach.

Willie Lincoln's ghost and a graveyard chorus on one night in 1862; Saunders' Booker.