Lu Barnham

Travel Writer, author of 'An African Alphabet', 'The Cicada's Summer Song' and ‘Before the Bottle Tree’.

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Join me at an Elvis gospel service in an underground car park, a gold mine in the rain and a field full of giant spiders…

Before the Bottle Tree: An Australian Journey in Fifteen Festivals https://t.co/uEfcDv1UQv

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Rare Mughal era eyeglasses to be auctioned by Sotheby's https://t.co/wRGEAmWf2u

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@WaterstonesHarr These little octopus buddies are just the best 😊

[WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk @WeHaveWaysPod]

Denis Barnham flew spitfires over Malta during the battle for dominance of the skies over the island. He also wrote a brilliant account of this time called One Man's Window. @almurray has recorded the book for We Have Ways listeners. Starts Monday. @James1940

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@Breathedreamgo @DalrympleWill @PicoIyer @monisha_rajesh @shivya ‘Following Fish’ by Samanth Subramanian (coastal India), ‘The Epic City’ by Kushanava Choudhury (Kolkata), for Delhi Sam Miller’s ‘Delhi’ and Dalrymple’s ‘City of Djinns’, plus ‘The Hall of Thousand Columns’ (Tim Mackintosh-Smith) I also liked Kevin Rushby’s two titles on India👍

[ARCHIVED - NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover @NASAPersevere]

I’m safe on Mars. Perseverance will get you anywhere.

#CountdownToMars

[ARCHIVED - NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover @NASAPersevere]

This is it. I’m entering the top of the Mars atmosphere. No looking back. Seven minutes to touchdown.

#CountdownToMars

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Was a real treat to be longlisted for the ‘New Travel Writer of the Year’ competition, many thanks @BradtGuides A pleasure to feature alongside such great entries, best of luck to the finalists! https://t.co/gpSD6ZuKLn

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‘Meeting people whose passion is infectious, whose generosity unflinching, is common in this country.'

An ode to India, the destination that keeps on giving, in ‘Green Lassi, Golden City’, a longlisted entry in this year’s travel-writing competition. https://t.co/Blq4JffagI

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@leonmccarron ‘There Are Other Rivers’ by Alastair Humphreys, ‘River Dog’ by Mark Shand.

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@tahira_k I’m a writer too, and have one very similar to this. 🙂 Just finished your book and loved it. Will be looking forward to whatever you write next.

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@mrngunnawal Best wishes to you and yours this holiday season.

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These two books appeared in the same year (1999). This, I think, is the moment that British travel writing came home, went incognito, and started skulking around in the woods and meadows.

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@TimYowie Guthega?

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@cadmus08 How awesome, Zool. I love the movie adaptation with Dev Anand, you’ve reminded me must read the novel

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@halfmanhalfb00k @noosarowiwa @FaberBooks @ElandPublishing @JonathanCape @picadorbooks @GrantaBooks ‘Looking For Transwonderland’ is fantastic

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❤️

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@JWBarnham Shudder!

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@JWBarnham I’d take the Central Hall over M&S/Primark any day, very cool to compare between the photos. I love the old billboards. ❤️

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@JWBarnham Very cool, James. I’m wondering what happened to the tower in the bottom right b+w image. Though the little clock survived!