Articles

The ill-tempered winds of the Mediterranean. Published in The Passenger.

An unearthly sparkle in the woods leads into a world of colour foraging and the politics of pigment. Published in Perspective.

My initiation into the endangered arts of bell-founding and metal-casting. Published in Perspective.

How travel writing and fiction merged to produce Red Smoking Mirror. Published in The Irish Times.

A jewel of the Islamic Golden Age, modern Córdoba has a legacy of cultural collisions. Published in Perspective.

Red Smoking Mirror, and how alternate history helps us imagine alternate futures. Published in Dark Mountain.

Is walking on the melting Aletsch Glacier a kind of ‘last-chance tourism’? Published in Guardian Travel.

Great betrayer, or feminist icon? The amazing story of La Malinche, Nahua interpreter to Hernán Cortés. Published in Bookanista.

The life and unsolved disappearance of the vagabond Everett Ruess. Published in Slightly Foxed.

How travels in five countries shaped the writing of my debut novel. Published in WEXAS Traveller.

A winter exploration of an uncanny landscape where sand dunes swallow villages. Published in Guardian Travel.

How fiction can navigate loss, drawing on themes from ‘Loss Soup and Other Stories’. Published in Resurgence & Ecologist.

Tracing a 20th-century front line through landscapes newly scarred by 21st-century wildfires. Published in Dark Mountain.

Wildfires reveal the buried violence of Europe’s past on Slovenia’s Walk of Peace. For BBC Radio 4: From Our Own Correspondent.

A chaotic journey through Romania, Ukraine and Poland to the Tatra Mountains. Published in Intrepid Times.

On having my preconceptions destroyed in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley. Published in Dark Mountain and The Best British Travel Writing of the 21st Century.

A reflection on what has changed since my walk to Istanbul. For BBC Radio 4: From Our Own Correspondent.

Review of ‘The Hunt for Mount Everest’ by Craig Storti. Published in Literary Review.