Coy and Not-So-Coy

It’s done! It’s done! After four years work I’ve completed the final draft of my new book. I may still be coy about its title and the nature of the … Read More

First Draft Done – At Last

At last I am at my desk editing the new book, drawing together the experiences of more than a dozen extraordinary research trips to Bhutan, Kerala, the Peruvian Amazon, Jerusalem, … Read More

Broadening Our World

To Benedict Allen, Don McCullin, Noo Saro-Wiwa, Nick Danziger, Monisha Rajesh, Kassia St Clair, Hilary Bradt, Katie Carr, Bijan Omrani, Tom Parfit and Davina Quinlivan, and to our wonderful audiences, … Read More

Up the Amazon and Back Down Again

Rory MacLean and Shipibo healers in the Peruvian Amazon

Apologies for my lengthy silence. Since my last newsletter I’ve been travelling, making research trips to India, California, the US Great Plains, British Columbia and Bhutan. Three weeks ago I … Read More

Sherborne Travel Writing Festival

Sherborne Travel Writing Festival

These last years have brought dramatic changes to our lives: Brexit, Covid lockdowns, soaring energy costs, climate change and the largest, most brutal war in Europe since 1945. While our … Read More

The Travel Writing Tribe

Tim Hannigan is a lovely man. The Cornish writer and academic is author of several narrative history books, including the award-winning Raffles and the British Invasion of Java. His book The … Read More

Putin’s Pecker

After two years of personal and collective loss, for so many of us, we seemed at last to have started on a new, hopeful journey – until two weeks ago. … Read More