At last - a wine writer who makes us laugh One More for the Road sounds like a hedonist's odyssey through the best restaurants, wineries and resorts of the world, and in many ways Jeffrey Benson's diarised globetrotting is exactly that - but how entertaining he makes it all Here is a handbook for the upmarket traveller - where to go, where to avoid, airlines, upgrades, the best seats, the best hotels, the best massage... and of course the best wines to go with the food on offer. Not that Mr Benson is sniffy about spirits and beer; he gives first rate advice on both (he was Executive...

The O'Rooneys are a family of field mice who live happily in an old biscuit tin, in a place they know as the Wilderness. Here they are free to play, safe from harm. Or so they think. Pugnacious the cat is on the prowl and has the youngest mouse, Rooney O'Rooney, in his sights! Join Rooney on his adventure as he searches for his lost family. Can Avortit, the wisest creature in the Wilderness, and his friends help Rooney find his way home?

Jeffrey Benson gives us both barrels of the modern travel experience. There are glorious gastronomic moments and glimpses of the splendour of the natural world, as well as comic interludes and the odd despairing grumble, all in the company of our witty and humane chaperone.

Following on from Jeffrey Benson's first volume of travel diaries, One More for the Road, comes a second instalment, as one of the food and drink world's intrepid voyagers continues on his way. No Half Measures whisks the reader to the luxury resorts of the Indian Ocean, tasting cutting-edge cuisine and fine wines on five continents, and celebrates all the cultural diversity the world still has to offer.

As before, Benson gives us both barrels of modern travel experience, the vintage and the vin ordinaire, the sublime and the ridiculous, in generous and richly evocative accounts of...