Sarah Anderson

 

I travelled extensively in my early twenties and spent over a year living in New York. When I arrived back in England I did a degree in Chinese at SOAS and worked in a few bookshops before setting up my own shop - the Travel Bookshop - in 1979. During my time at the bookshop, later to become famous in the film Notting Hill, I was a judge for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and for the Whitbread Biography Prize. My published books include Anderson’s Travel Companion, The Virago Book of Spirituality and Inside Notting Hill. I have given several talks and written numerous travel articles and book reviews for the Times, Financial Times, Spectator, Mail on Sunday and Guardian. In 2004–5 I did a series of 12 weekly articles for TimesOnLine while I travelled round the world. In 2004 I completed an MA in the Psychology of Religion at Heythrop College, University of London. In 2005–6 I taught a course in travel writing at City University. My autobiography Halfway to Venus: A One-Armed Journey will be published in May 2008.

Photograph taken by John Swannell

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