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‘What observation! What majesty of style! What laconic humour! For me, Lewis has been the discovery of the year.' @spectator Join Matthew Parris & others reading ‘A Quiet Evening’ John Hatt’s new anthology from the master of travel writing #NormanLewis travelbooks.co.uk/shop-onlin…
‘I first encountered Jonathan Raban as an absence, a glamorous rumour.’ Read Professor Jon Cook on Jonathan Raban in our latest newsletter. Also featured in our newsletter, news and a prize draw from the Llangwm Literary Festival @llangwmlitfest1 mailchi.mp/96d51859b721/elan…
The latest in our ‘Eland Interviews’ series, we speak to Nicholas Shakespeare in our newsletter. Also featured are Llangwm Literary Festival in Pembrokeshire and Mark McCrum’s new novel ‘Death on the Press Trip’ @llangwmlitfest1 @dolphinsands mailchi.mp/9e201557162a/elan…
Read Nicholas Allan’s ‘Letter from Sindh’ in our latest newsletter, now on our website home page. Nicholas visits shrines, tombs and mosques in the footsteps of Peter Mayne, whose book ‘Saints of Sind’ has just joined the Eland classic list mailchi.mp/6302bc1a4891/elan… #pakistan
Sara Wheeler, author of ‘Jan Morris: A Life’ @FaberBooks is featured in our latest newsletter (now on our website). Sara is appearing at the Sherborne Travel Writing Festival this weekend - for tickets and information go to sherbornetravelwritingfestiv…
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What Makes the Man? In our latest newsletter, Barnaby Rogerson writes about Peter Fleming, author of ‘News from Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir’
Photograph: Eve Fleming and her four boys, Peter, Robert, Michael, Eve and Ian (holding arms) mailchi.mp/42a3dbf80fa0/elan…
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This is a newsletter I always read (and this time not just because our writing course is featured) 📚🖋️. Eland is a wonderful home to so many first-rate writers.
Our new year newsletter is out, alongside Barnaby’s nine swims of the year, we feature news from Write at Garavicchio @thejulianevans the Sherborne Travel Writing Festival, Emily’s Walking Book Club & Personal Landscapes podcast mailchi.mp/6e88c04c7476/elan…
Our new year newsletter is out, alongside Barnaby’s nine swims of the year, we feature news from Write at Garavicchio @thejulianevans the Sherborne Travel Writing Festival, Emily’s Walking Book Club & Personal Landscapes podcast mailchi.mp/6e88c04c7476/elan…
'I doubt there will be a finer book of non-fiction than this in 2025.’ Stephen Smith, The Observer, Book of the Day
In praise of Norman Lewis - our latest newsletter out now mailchi.mp/d579ae34ed6f/elan…
Our latest newsletter features Peter Grant's biographical afterword of Agnes Keith, author of ‘Three Came Home: a mother's ordeal in a Japanese prison camp’ Plus, memories of Gillian Tindall @thegentleauthor & praise for Norman Lewis's 'A Quiet Evening' mailchi.mp/ed1b08cbe692/elan…
Read Nigel Barley on Anthropology in our latest newsletter mailchi.mp/32df4ce13508/nige…
with a bonus podcast featuring Nigel on Ryan Murdock’s Personal Landscapes series. Also featured, Help for Ukraine @thejulianevans, the Isle Schwepcke Prize and The Makers Sale @TheGrangeWine
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Great news. Dervla's unique home is to be preserved by Waterford County Council. I spent many, many hours chatting with Dervla in the Old Market.
I hope it has a bright future as a cultural space. 💚 @WaterfordCounci @ElandPublishing
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Gamel Woolsey, author of ‘Death’s Other Kingdom: A Spanish village on the eve of the Civil War’. Read Michael Jacob’s afterword to this remarkable first-hand account in our latest newsletter, alongside @actionsyriauk @CornucopiaMag @DorchLitFest mailchi.mp/7eac6339f258/deat…
More summer reading: Norman Lewis’s writings labourhub.org.uk/2025/08/24/… via @LabourHub
@frankcottrell_b Frank Cottrell-Boyce on @BBCr4today today chose Norman Lewis's 'Naples '44' as 'the greatest book ever written', the book he gives to someone when he connects with them, it's 'very, very funny, very, very wild, very, very beautiful, about the dignity of people.'
What to read this summer '... Lewis immerses himself in the local culture & history and brings fresh insights while providing terrific anecdotes & introducing the reader to fascinating characters. The prose is sublime too.' #IanRankin on Norman Lewis's 'A Quiet Evening' @thetimes
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What a delicious looking meal! Thank you for the plug! All looking cool and collected in Llangwm - ready for the litfest 8 - 10 Aug: llangwmlitfest.co.uk/program…
Persian Picnics – our latest newsletter is out. Read Barnaby Rogerson on travelling through Iran with the ‘funny, fantastically indiscreet’, Bruce Wannell. Alongside news from the British Moroccan Soc, @thegentleauthor @llangwmlitfest1
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'My Eland Top Five' We enjoyed reading Ryan Murdock's top five picks from the Eland list, including Norman Lewis, Dervla Murphy, Martha Gellhorn and Jonathan Raban @roadwisdom personallandscapespodcast.co…
