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This site archives the best of my writing over the last decade or so, from investigative journalism to opinion pieces, interviews to book reviews, reportage to poetry.

Here you can also find information about my books and my forthcoming work. You can read my blogs, and you can find out more about the cultural initiative I have recently co-founded, the Dark Mountain Project.

If you like what you find, you can sign up to my mailing list to keep up to speed with future books, events and other odds and ends.

What am I about? If I were forced to try and describe what I do, I would say that I write about the links between people and places, the political and the personal. From torture in the highlands of New Guinea to tree-sitting in Hampshire; street protest in Italy to alternative economics in the Himalayas; armed rebellion in Mexico to the decline of the English pub, I try to tease out links between who and where we are, and where our direction of travel is likely to take us.

I hope you find something here to engage you.