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To a Mountain in Tibet

To a Mountain in Tibet

by Colin Thubron

The doyen of travel writing at his elegiac and luminous best.

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A-Z of authors

Authors found: 130
John Hackett

John Hackett


General Sir John Hackett was born in Western Australia in 1910 and educated at Geelong Grammar School and New College, Oxford. He was commissioned into the 8th Hussars in 1931, and remained a regular soldier ...

Mark Haddon

Mark Haddon


Mark Haddon is an author, illustrator and screenwriter who has written fifteen books for children and won two BAFTAs. His bestselling novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time was published ...

Tessa Hadley

Tessa Hadley


Tessa Hadley is the author of four highly praised novels, Accidents in the Home, which was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, Everything Will Be All Right, The Master Bedroom and The London ...

Matt Haig

Matt Haig


Matt Haig was born in Sheffield in 1975 and grew up in Nottinghamshire. He has lived in London and Ibiza, where he worked for the Manumission club. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, the Sunday ...

Alex Halberstadt

Alex Halberstadt


Alex Halberstadt's writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, GQ, the Los Angeles Times, Salon, the Oxford American and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Alex Haley

Alex Haley


Alex Haley was born in Ithaca, New York in 1921. He grew up in the South, the son of Simon Alexander Haley, a teacher, and the former Bertha George Palmer, also a teacher. In 1939 Haley began a twenty ...

Brian Hall

Brian Hall


Brian Hall was born in 1959. He grew up in Massachusetts and attended Harvard College. After two years spent travelling in Western and Eastern Europe, he wrote Stealing from a Deep Place: Travels in South ...

James Hall

James Hall


James Hall studied at Cambridge University and the Courtauld Institute of Art. He writes, lectures and broadcasts widely on art history and contemporary art, and was awarded the first Bernard Denvir Prize ...

Authors found: 130