His second book, Theatre of Fish, set in Newfoundland and Labrador, was published in 2005.īoth books were nominated by The New York Times as being among the ‘100 Notable Books of the Year’. His first book was At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig, which is described as a 'vivid, riotous journey into the heart of South America' (see the Reviews page). His travel photographs have appeared in the Telegraph, Wanderlust and Geographical. He also contributes to other travel titles, including the Conde Nast Traveller and Wanderlust. He is a regular contributor to a number of British broadsheets, including The Daily Telegraph, Times and The Guardian travel sections. The following year he won the Wanderlust Travel Writing competition. In 1997, he won the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize with ‘Pink Pigs in Paraguay’, which was published in The Spectator in May of that year. He returned to England via Paraguay and Bolivia to read law at Cambridge. In 1982, on the eve of the Falklands War, he was working on an estancia in Argentina. At seventeen, he crossed the Soviet Union by train and has since travelled to over 60 countries.
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