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The Weekenders

The Weekenders

Travels in the Heart of Africa

by Andrew O'HaganGiles Foden Tony Hawks and others
Paperback
Publication Date: 07/12/2001

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A wonderful collection of short stories and travel writing from some of Britain's best writers

What would happen if you took some of Britain's best writing talent, put them on a plane and flew them to one of the most extraordinary and inaccessible places on the planet? What would happen if you took Irvine Welsh from the streets of Edinburgh and showed him a remote, dangerous village in Africa? Or if you flew Alex Garland into one of the world's most hazardous war zones? And how would Tony Hawks react if you dragged him away from his tennis and asked him to write a song with a Sudanese tribesman? With Victoria Glendinning, Andrew O'Hagan, Giles Foden and WF Deedes, these writers have experienced for themselves one of the most beautiful and yet troubled lands in the world - Sudan. This remarkable collection of short stories and evocative travel writing is their response - as diverse and unpredictable as the country itself.
ISBN:
9780091881801
9780091881801
Category:
Travel writing
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
07-12-2001
Publisher:
Ebury Publishing
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
352
Dimensions (mm):
198x126x22mm
Weight:
0.24kg
Andrew O'Hagan

Andrew O'Hagan is one of our most exciting and most serious chroniclers of contemporary Britain. He has twice been nominated for the Man Booker Prize.

He was voted one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2003. He has won the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. He lives in London.

Giles Foden

Giles Foden was born in Warwickshire in 1967 and grew up in Africa. He is the author of four novels, Last King of Scotland, Ladysmith, Zanzibar and Turbulence, and one work of non-fiction, Mimi and Toutou Go Forth. For five years he was assistant editor of the TLS, and was then Deputy Literary Editor at the Guardian. He's now Professor of Creative Writing at UEA. He is married to Matilda Hunt and lives in Norfolk.

Irvine Welsh

Irvine Welsh is the author of ten previous novels and four books of shorter fiction.

He currently lives in Chicago.

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