Book Tour

Great to spend an unseasonably sunny April afternoon exploring ‘the city of dreaming spires’ ahead of an appearance at the… Read more: Oxford Literary Festival

After so many hours in The Alpine Club library it felt special to be invited to deliver a talk at… Read more: The Alpine Club, London

Established in 1853, Stanfords was purveying maps back when the pioneering protagonists of The White Ladder were in the market… Read more: Stanfords, London

I’ve made new friends and caught up with old ones at every stop on my book tour, and Topping &… Read more: Topping & Company, Bath

The promise of ‘an evening with Daniel Light’ made me wonder if I needed some jokes, a musical number, maybe… Read more: Blackwell’s, Oxford

Great to be back in Edinburgh thirty years after I arrived as a fresh(ish)-faced undergraduate with my whole adult life… Read more: Blackwell’s, Edinburgh

Shortly before my Q&A at Tetbury Book Festival I was approached by Dermot McMeekin, grandson of Dr Tom Longstaff. For… Read more: Tetbury Book Festival, Tetbury

The launch party took place at Burley Fisher Books in Haggerston, a shop I must have passed a thousand times… Read more: Burley Fisher Books, Haggerston

For years I’ve been walking past my local bookshops imagining a book of my own there in the window. In… Read more: Rossiter Books, Ross-on-Wye

Great to be invited to David’s Bookshop in Letchworth Garden City on the day of the book’s UK launch. It… Read more: David’s Bookshop, Letchworth