MacLean must surely be the outstanding, and most indefatigable, traveller-writer of our time.
~ John le Carré
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Sherborne Travel Writing Festival
‘The Sherborne Travel Writing Festival is a pearl beyond price, a coming together of readers, writers and audiences united by a love of the world and the writing it inspires.

Coy and Not-So-Coy
It’s done! It’s done! After four years work I’ve completed the final draft of my new book. I may still be coy about its title and the nature of the

Hurrah! Hurrah for the Sherborne Prize for Travel Writing!
In its third year, this weekend’s 2025 Sherborne Travel Writing Festival unfolded with dazzling speakers, ecstatic audiences and a relieved curator (that’s me, folks). As the UK’s only annual festival