Next Exit Magic Kingdom: Florida Accidentally
‘Zippy and fun; it has heart and energy and a restless haphazard charm. MacLean has wrestled the Sunshine State like an alligator and stuffed and mounted it for our readerly pleasure’ – Louis Theroux ‘A marvellously entertaining and intelligent glimpse of the “real” Florida’ – James Jauncey, The Scotsman ‘Punchy, irreverent and funny’ – Independent on Sunday ‘Probably […]
Gift of Time
‘Gift of Time is a wonderful book: a tender, wise and compelling memoir not only about the great mystery of death, but about grief, and love, and the transcending power of the family.’ – Katie Hickman ‘a moving and fearless engagement with a subject that touches us all… beautiful.’ – Financial Times ‘the book is celebratory, signifying […]
Wunderkind: Portraits of 50 Contemporary German Artists
What makes an artist? What forces and inklings drive a young man or woman to make their own journey, and where does it begin? In imaginary childhood games? In chance encounters? At the sensitive core of the human heart? Over the last eight years, I have tried to answer these – and other – questions […]
Back in the USSR: Heroic Adventures in Transnistria
“If they don’t change, we pull the trigger.” Sunlight sparkles off the broad Dniester River. Smugglers’ tracks wind across the snow and into silent woods. Patriotic oligarchs in Gucci tracksuits hunt wild boar with AK-47s. In 2013 when photographer Nick Danziger and I made the trip that would become Back in the USSR, Transnistria seemed like […]
Pictures of You: Ten Journeys in Time
‘Stunning! A unique virtuoso exercise in empathy, narrative and imagination.’ – Jan Morris ‘A delicately beautiful book, haunting in its effect. Superb.’ – Alexander McCall Smith ‘…deeply moving…a richly imaginative account of ordinary lives — and an eerily beautiful meditation on mortality’ – Joanna Kavenna in the Times Literary Supplement ‘There is, to my mind, no one who writes […]
The Shortest History of Berlin
‘This grandly ambitious work has a noble intention: to re-create through art and imagination the whole historic presence of a great capital, from its beginnings to its present day… Maclean’s book is a wonderful achievement, not justly to be summarised in the few hundred words of a review. but hauntingly representing, as in a tangled […]