Writing

Writing

My writing centres on memoir and cultural essays, often at the intersection of music, travel, and place. It is shaped by lived experience, but concerned less with official record than with how events, landscapes, and encounters are rendered on the page.

Forthcoming book

The Singing Ambassador – A Tajik Story is the first in a sequence of books drawing on more than four decades in diplomacy. Part memoir and part cultural reflection, it explores life and work in Central Asia and beyond, and the unexpected role that song played in navigating unfamiliar settings and relationships.
Publication: September 2026.

Essays & articles

Alongside longer-form work, I write essays on music and cultural life, many of which have appeared in the Review of Sussex Arts (ROSA). These pieces often take a specific place or event as their starting point — a journey, a performance, a landscape — and follow where it leads.

Go here for selected blogs,essays and articles, with further writing and extracts added over time.