Authors
Writers of guidebooks and other travel books
 

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Annie Bennett - email
I specialise in writing about Spain, for the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, Times, Observer and others. Books include National Geographic Traveler Madrid, and Blue Guides to Madrid and Barcelona. I have won the Spain Travel Writer of the Year and other awards.
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Gary Bowerman - email - SEE PERSONAL PAGE FOR MORE
China-based regular contributor to CNN Traveller, ABTA magazine, Asia and Away, and TravelAgeWest. Co-Editor of ZAGAT Survey Shanghai Restaurants/Hotels Guide. Recently contributed to Conde Nast Traveller, Departures, Forbes.com and SilkRoad. Specialist on China and Far East, business travel, Asian travel industry, airlines, hotels and luxury travel.
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Joe Cawley - website - email
Freelance travel writer published in The Sunday Times Travel Magazine, The Times, Guardian, Observer, Independent, Mail on Sunday, Evening Standard, New York Post, Conde Nast Traveler and many others. Contributor to guidebooks, and author of More Ketchup Than Salsa (2006). Based in Tenerife.
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Kate Calvert - website - email - SEE PERSONAL PAGE FOR MORE
Founder and editor of the Family Travel web site www.family-travel.co.uk, the UK's most extensive web resource on travel and holidays with children. Author of Harden's London Baby Book and freelance contributor to publications ranging from the Independent newspaper to Kidz magazine.
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Jane Cody - website - email
Specialist in Croatia - personalities, destinations, sailing, travel tips, business, general interest, ex-pat community and property. Regular contributor to Time Out Publications. Also published in Boat International and Abroad Magazine. Based in Split, Croatia.
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Donna Dailey - website - email - SEE PERSONAL PAGE FOR MORE
Author of 25 travel guides for Insight Guides, Thomas Cook, AA and other major publishers, many with own photographs. Destinations include Crete, Paris, Dublin, Tunis, Scotland, Ireland, Denver, Southwest USA, Los Angeles, Athens, Costa Blanca, Malta. Edited many other titles. Also writes for magazines and newspapers.
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Sue Dobson - email
Award-winning freelance travel writer and photographer contributing to magazines, the web and guide books, including sections in Where to Go When (DK 2007), AA Guide to Western European Cities (2008) and revised Eyewitness Denmark (DK 2008). Author, with photographs, of Travellers Cape Verde and Travellers Namibia (Thomas Cook 2008). See also Journalists, Photographers and Editors pages.
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Jane Egginton - email
Award-winning travel writer, editor and photographer, with nearly 20 years experience producing guides for AA Publishing, Berlitz, Reader's Digest, DK, Cadogan, Footprint and Insight. Contributor to The Guardian, The Observer, The Sunday Times and World Travel Guides online. Author of Thomas Cook Travellers to Peru, Brazil and Argentina (all 2007). Specializing in the UK and South and Central America.
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Peter Ellegard - website - email
Features editor for Travel Trade Gazette until going freelance in 2002. Regular contributor to numerous publications, TV presenter, award-winning photographer, and compiler of online guides for Nexus, Whatsonwhen.com and others. Co-writer of the AA Key Guide to China (October 2007) and revised the AA Explorer Guide to China (2006). See also Journalists, Photographers, Broadcasters and Editors pages.
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Adele Evans - email
Journalist, broadcaster and author of guidebooks to Italy and France for publishers including Insight, Berlitz, Thomas Cook, Dorling Kindersley and contributions to Riva Publishing’s ‘Room for Romance Italy’. Currently (2007) writing the new Spiral Guide and Twinpack Guides to Sardinia – both for AA Publishing.
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Teresa Fisher - email
10 titles in last 3 years. Recent books include Discover France, Lonely Planet France, Discovering Rome, Insight Mallorca, Explorer Mallorca, and 5 children's travel titles.
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Rebecca Ford - email - SEE PERSONAL PAGE FOR MORE
I have written/contributed to many travel guides for the AA and Thomas Cook, and also write for newspapers such as The Express and The Guardian. Specialise in the UK, Europe (esp. Italy), walking, wildlife, railway journeys, WW1, eco-travel, spas, gardens, guidebooks, property, audio guides and podcasts.
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Carole French - website - email
Author of travel guides for Michelin, Dorling Kindersley, AA Publications, Time Out, Ryanair, EasyJet and Thomas Cook on destinations such as Cyprus, Thailand, Egypt, the Netherlands, Channel Islands, London and Paris. A travel, real estate and lifestyle journalist, and magazine editor since the 1980s. Former BBC journalist. Editor of online Cyprus Life.
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Robin Gauldie - website - email
Writer, photographer, broadcaster, editor. Guidebooks to Greece, France, Scotland, Ireland, Sri Lanka, Goa and Kerala, Morocco, Thailand for Dorling Kindersley, Thomas Cook, Globetrotter. Most recent books: Globetrotter Peru (2006), Thomas Cook Travellers Estonia (2006). Contributor to Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Mirror, Scotland-on-Sunday and many other publications: see Journalists and Editors pages.
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Mike Gerrard - website - email - SEE PERSONAL PAGE FOR MORE
Guidebooks to numerous destinations worldwide (see Specialities) for publishers including the AA, Dorling Kindersley, Insight, Berlitz, New Holland, Thomas Cook, Michelin and Moon Metro Guides. Mike Gerrard's booklet, So You Want To Be A Travel Writer?, is available in paperback and as a download at www.lulu.com/mikegerrard.
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Emma Jones - email
Freelance writer and journalist specialising in Italy, France and the UK with experience writing on adventure sports, accommodation, food and drink and the environment. Author of ‘Adventure Guide to Tuscany and Umbria’ and sections of ‘Essential Tuscany’ (AA Guides) and ‘France – Best Places to Eat and Stay’ (Dorling Kindersley).
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Ted Jones - website - email
Freelance writer and journalist specialising in France and art. Author of The French Riviera: A Literary Guide (2007). Other recent credits include: The Lady, Guardian, Choice, Wanderlust, France, France Today, Voyageur. 
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Samantha Lee - email
16 books (on personal development, dark fantasy and sci fi), 77 short stories (for anthologies, magazines and TV/radio), two children's TV series, a BBC play set in Northern Ireland, and 200 articles published. World traveller but main area of expertise Spain in general, Andalucia in particular. Fluent Spanish. Most recent job Malaga correspondent to Viva España, with back page column 'Parting Shots'.
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Tim Locke - website - email
Guidebook author and editor for over 20 years, encyclopaedic knowledge of England and Wales. Has worked for AA, Thomas Cook, Reader's Digest and Cadogan. Recent projects include heritage trails for Tourism South-East (with National Trust and English Heritage), Good Pub Guide, Frommers, AA Leisure Guide to the South Downs and Coast, articles for Weekends Away and Voyager, and sustainable tourism consultancy.
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Terry Marsh - website - email - SEE PERSONAL PAGE FOR MORE
Specialist in France and the UK, and wide knowledge of Australia. Regular contributor to Living France; author of nearly 50 books; lectures on 'Writing about Travel'.
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Robin McKelvie - website - email
Travelled to over 75 countries, taking around 10,000 photos a year and writing for over 50 publications worldwide, including the Daily Mail, Guardian, Sunday Post, CNN Traveller, Sunday Herald, Independent Magazine. Author of guides to Bermuda, Latvia, Lithuania, Croatia, Slovenia. Specialist in luxury travel, hotels, spas, walking, adventure sports, Scotland, Croatia, Slovenia, Baltic States, emerging destinations.
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Paul Murphy - website - email
Author of over 40 travel guidebooks on many destinations for Michelin, AA, Fodors, Berlitz, Thomas Cook etc, also with editorial and project management experience, and a regular contributor to the travel pages of national magazines and newspapers. In addition I have a large picture library on many European and Mediterranean destinations, particularly holiday hotspots.
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Laurence Phillips - website - email - SEE PERSONAL PAGE FOR MORE
Award-winning author and storyteller, specialising in regional France, the offbeat, romantic and unexpected. Paris restaurant reviews, AA guides, twice winner Guidebook of the Year (for Bradt Guides: Lille, Paris & Brussels).
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Neil Ray - website - email
Freelance travel writer, editor & photographer based in Bangkok, Thailand. Editor in Chief of “Look East On Line”. Author of guides to Switzerland (Berlitz), Thailand (Landmark), and Phuket (Landmark), as well as recent (2007) updates (Michelin), online guides and magazine features. Also written for numerous UK, Thai and other publications. See also Journalists, Photographers and Editors pages.
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Katerina Roberts - website - email
Journalist and author working together with photographer Eric Roberts on guide books (Insight, Berlitz, Thomas Cook, AA), on-line guides (Expedia and Fastcheck), updates, pictures and articles. Specialising in Indian Ocean region (Mauritius, Reunion, Seychelles, Sri Lanka). Extensive photo library. Based in Mauritius.
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Zoe Ross - website - email
Writer, editor and project manager for Thomas Cook, AA Publishing, Dorling Kindersley, Insight Guides and other guidebook publishers. Travel journalist with articles published in the Sunday Mirror and Holiday Villas Magazine, among others .
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Tristan Rutherford & Kathryn Tomasetti - website - email
We've written/updated over 30 guidebooks for Time Out, Rough Guides, DK and Thomas Cook from Shanghai to Lisbon. Feature writers for Sunday Times Travel Magazine, Observer, Independent and various inflights worldwide. 300dpi Nikon DX40 photos available with copy. Mediterranean a speciality, but as we often work together we can cover almost anywhere, fast.
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Andrew Sanger - website - contact - SEE PERSONAL PAGE FOR MORE
More than 25 titles, most translated or in foreign editions, on Israel, France (and French regions), Ireland, Lanzarote, Tenerife, Brussels, and vegetarian travel. Also work as series editor, project editor, editorial consultant.
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Duncan JD Smith - website - email - SEE PERSONAL PAGE FOR MORE
Self-styled 'Urban Explorer', travel guide writer, and photojournalist. Currently writing/photographing a series of guidebooks to the hidden corners of European capitals: Vienna, Budapest, Prague, Berlin, Paris. Commissioned articles and photo stock.
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Hugh Taylor - website - email
Award winning travel writer contributing to many UK and foreign publications. Author of over fifteen guide books (AA, Jarrold, Insight, Thomas Cook, Columbus), specialising in UK, especially Scotland. Other destinations: USA, Scandinavia, France, Middle East. Also radio writer/producer for BBC (Radio Scotland, Radio 2).
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Sunil Vaidyanathan - website - email
Mumbai-based photojournalist and writer specialising in people, cultures and travel. My work has regularly appeared in travel magazines and newspapers. Author of five well-reviewed books - the fifth, ‘Pilgrimage Places in India’, was released at the 2006 Frankfurt Book Fair. Currently working on a photo essay exploring the symbiosis between the rivers of India and communities that live along it.
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Arnie Wilson - website - email
Specialist ski writer. Editor of Ski + Board since 2001. Ski writer for Financial Times for 20 years. Author of four ski books. Also general travel writer with many FT cuttings. Former contributor of ski items for Radio 4 Breakaway and Radio 5 Live.
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