Yearly Archives: 2011

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 […]

Merry Christmas!

24 Dec, 2011 in Uncategorized by sworrall

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

5 Oct, 2011 in Uncategorized tagged aude / barcelona / France / hotels / idylls / Mas Caterina / spain / travel by sworrall

Summer In The Hamptons

28 Jul, 2011 in Uncategorized by sworrall

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

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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

29 Jun, 2011 in Uncategorized by sworrall

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

30 Apr, 2011 in Kindle / National Geographic Magazine / Patagonia / Uncategorized tagged A River Runs Through It / adventure travel / Argentina / Barbara Kingsolver / Bill Bryson / Bridges of Madison County / Bruce Chatwin / Bruce Feiler / Buenos Aires / Christopher mcDougall / Dalai Lama / Dan Brown / David Grann / David McCullough / divorce;fathers and sons;men's lives; men's stories; nonfiction; parenting; Kindle; Nook; children; surviving divorce; separation / Ebooks / Greg Mortensen / Henning Mankell / James Patterson / Jon Krakauer / Kindle / Laura Hillenbrand / love / Mitch Albom / National Geographic Magazine / Patagonia / Peter Mathiessen / Rena's Promise / romance / sex / The New Yorker / The Snow Leopard / travel by sworrall

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

26 Apr, 2011 in Uncategorized by sworrall

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

24 Apr, 2011 in Uncategorized by sworrall

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. “ […]