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2010
The J-Word
released in the US in January.
Footprint
Normandy
published in May. I am devoting this year to building my travel
websites, including one-page-guides at
Focus Guides and services for travel
media at
Travelwriters UK.
2009
My novel
The J-Word
was published by Snowbooks. I also wrote scores of online destination
guides, and worked on a guidebook on Normandy (for Footprint Handbooks).
2003-2008
I spent these years writing many new guidebooks and updating or revising
my existing titles for new editions. Most of the books have been
translated (German, Dutch, Norwegian, Hebrew, Polish, Japanese ...) and
many published in American editions. By the end of the period
I was the
author of around 30 travel books and guides,
mostly on France, but also Ireland, Israel, the Canary Islands and
guides for vegetarians. I continued to contribute as a freelance to
several newspapers, magazines and websites.
2000-2002
In this
period I worked almost entirely for AA Publishing and Thomas Cook
Publishing, as a freelance researcher and consultant, and writing
six original new
books published
for them in two
years.
1990-1999
Throughout
these 10 years, I was the
Editor of
Rail Europe
(originally called
Top Rail,
circulation 200,000), the French Railways/Rail Europe travel
magazine about Europe for rail travellers. During part of the period I
was also travel editor of
Ford Magazine
(circulation 1,000,000),
Vegetarian Living
(circulation
not known) and the insurance customer magazine
Foresight
(circulation 1,000,000). l also wrote guidebooks and travel
articles for a wide range of other publications, and continued as a
series editor for publishers A&C Black.
1980-1989
Throughout
the 1980s I contributed
hundreds of articles to the British national press,
especially the
Observer, Guardian, Evening Standard, Mail-on-Sunday, Daily Express,
Sunday Express, Sunday Times, and women's magazine Options. In addition
I wrote Exploring
Rural France and
created a guidebook series with 10 titles, Exploring Rural Europe, for
publishers Christopher Helm (purchased by A&C Black) and became the
series editor.
I wrote several other original travel books at this time, notably the
highly successful
The Vegetarian Traveller
(first published by Thorsons, then by Grafton).
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More biography / the past
Born in
London in 1948, I've always lived and worked as a freelance. I didn't
get into writing 'til the age of 30. Before that I travelled light and
did whatever came to hand ... farm labouring, truck driving, English
tuition.
Before becoming a travel writer,
I lived in several countries, including Greece, India,
Tunisia, and the USA, and most of all have had a lifelong involvement
with France. My home was the Languedoc region in the south of France
for a number of years.
I'm a frequent visitor to France and also to Israel, where my parents
used to live. I'm fascinated by: cultures in conflict, sense of place,
the Mediterranean world.
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Awards
ABTOF Travel Writer of the Year Awards 2007 - Finalist - in 2nd
place for best online article on France.
ABTOF Travel Writer of the Year Awards 2002 - Finalist - Andrew
Sanger occupying two of the top four positions for the best travel
writing on France.
Communicators In Business Awards 1998 - Certificate of Merit for
a Relaunched Publication - Editor.
Travelex Travel Writers' Awards 1996 - Category winner, Best
trade press article - 'Van Gogh's Visions of France' in Rail Europe
Magazine.
Travelex Travel Writers' Awards 1994 - Category winner,
Best consumer magazine article - 'O Come All Ye Faithful' (about the
Galilee, Israel) in BBC Holidays Magazine.
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Specialities and expertise
France
(all
regions, especially Picardy, Normandy and the North, Provence and the
South, Burgundy and Paris)
Greece (I've written about many of the islands and the mainland too)
Ireland (whole island, including Dublin and Northern Ireland)
Israel (especially Tel Aviv and Galilee -
also general tourism and resort news)
Lanzarote & Tenerife (two of Spain's popular Canary
Islands)
Family travel (unlike most travel writers, I prefer
to take the family!)
Mass-market destinations (like millions of other
people, I really like popular sun, sea and sand resorts)
Vegetarian travel (during 30 years of
travel, I've always looked for 'the vegetarian option' if it exists)
Winter sun (especially the Canary Islands, Eilat,
the French Riviera and California)
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