Season’s greetings to you all, may 2012 be a good, healthy, prosperous year. To all those who lost loved ones in 2011, my heart goes out to you. For my cousin, Pippa, my father, Philip, and my mother, Nancy, I send a special message of love. You will always be […]
Yearly archives: 2011
One of the most beautiful places I have found in Europe recently is the wedge of land between the city of Gerona and the Costa Brava, in Spain. In high summer, the crowds can be pretty odious. But off-season, it’s a magic place. We just spent a week at ” […]
Homage to Catalonia

I hardly recognise myself:)
Summer In The Hamptons
Earlier this month I had the honour of teaching at a new summer camp for teen writers, which was held on Shelter Island, New York, from July 2-9th. Created in memory of an Auschwitz survivor, Rena Gelissen, the central character in the inspirational Holocaust memoir, Rena’s Promise, by the camp’s […]
Rena’s Promise International Youth Writers Camp
A big shout-out for our dear friend, Gabriel Range, director of brilliant films like the award-winning I Am Slave, whose new company, Altered Image Films ( http://www.aifilms.com/mainsite/index.html) has a slate of really exciting projects. One day I hope we will be able to collaborate on a project.
Altered Image Films
I am pleased to announce that my new Memoir, River of Desire: A Journey Of The Heart Through Patagonia, is now Live on Kindle: http://tiny.cc/RDesire It’s been a long journey, in every sense, but I am very proud of the result. I hope you all enjoy it, too!
River of Desire
I would like to salute Georgia Griffiths, screenwriter exrtraordinaire, and her brilliant singer-sister, Jem, aka The Amazing Griffiths Girls. May our collaborations bear fruit …
The Amazing Griffiths Girls
My story, Whipped Into Shape, which is adapted from the Prologue to my new book, River of Desire, is in the May-June 2011 issue of NG Traveler :
Whipped Into Shape: National Geographic Traveler
Cue, drum roll! I have just finished the final edit/rewrite of my next book, River of Desire: A Journey Of The Heart Through Patagonia. It’s a very personal work – a love story wrapped up in a travel book – and it begins with one of my favourite quotes. “ […]