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I’m very pleased to announce that Granta have acquired my forthcoming non-fiction book, Hello, Stranger, an exploration of how welcoming strangers into our lives and worlds may make the world a better, richer place. The book is a response to two (real or imagined) crises: …
It’s been three or four weeks since arriving in Yangon, and it’s been a surprisingly busy time. There’s a lot going on with the Wind&Bones project that I run along with Hannah Stevens. We’ve been running a short story course at the Parami Institute, where …
Today is the official publication day for my travel memoir, Stealing With the Eyes: Imaginings and Incantations in Indonesia. I always feel both excited and a little apprehensive to see a new book make its way into the world. I’ve heard via the grape-vine that …
This morning I came home to find a mysterious box waiting for me, and I opened it up to find the author copies of my travel book Stealing with the Eyes: Imaginings and Incantations in Indonesia have finally arrived. The book is looking truly lovely. …
This year marks a decade since the publication of my first book, Cargo Fever. As it is a Sunday morning, and I have nothing else to do, I thought I would mark the occasion by translating the titles of all my books into emoji. I’ve …
I’m very pleased to say that Elee Kirk‘s monograph, Snapshots of Museum Experience: Understanding Child Visitors Through Photography will be published by Routledge in July this year. The book is drawn from Elee’s PhD thesis, and from the book outline that she and I agreed …
I’ve just finished the final edits for travel memoir, “Stealing With the Eyes“, and the book is coming out from Haus Publishing in May 2018. I thought that in advance of the publication, I should post a a sneak preview of some of the images …
I’m very pleased to see the cover of Stealing with the Eyes, my memoir of anthropology and Indonesia, due out from Haus Publishing in 2018. The cover image is a photograph I took of Saumlaki harbour in Tanimbar back in 1994. I dug it out …
I’m delighted that my introductory guide to the philosophies of happiness is to be re-released in early 2018 by Icon Books. It’s also got a handsome new cover. I’ll post on this blog when the book is out.
Today is the official launch date for Lucy and the Rocket Dog. 🚀🐶🎈🎊🎉 I’m not going to beat around the bush here. I think it would be an excellent thing if you all went and bought a copy. If you like any of the following, …