Patrick Marnham
Patrick Marnham is a biographer and travel writer. He began his career as a reporter on Private Eye and has written for many newspapers including The Times , the Guardian , The New York Review of Books and Libération and has been literary editor of the Spectator and the first Paris correspondent of the Independent . His books have won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Prize and the Marsh Biography Award and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lived in Paris for twelve years and now...See more
Patrick Marnham is a biographer and travel writer. He began his career as a reporter on Private Eye and has written for many newspapers including The Times , the Guardian , The New York Review of Books and Libération and has been literary editor of the Spectator and the first Paris correspondent of the Independent . His books have won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Prize and the Marsh Biography Award and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lived in Paris for twelve years and now lives in Oxfordshire. See less
Patrick Marnham's Featured Books
Patrick Marnham book reviews
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The Man Who Wasn't Maigret: A Portrait of Georges Simenon
Well-searched bio
Be warned--G.S. was not a very nice guy. I think a Maigret fan might be put off his books by knowing this much about someone who lived as he did. Read More
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So Far from God
Great Trip by a Great Writer
Marnham is a Brit, which is to say he's a master of irony and profoundly understated. He wouldn't tell us, for example, that a lot of people slept cold and hungry in Chihuahua when he passed through ... Read More
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So Far from God
Armchair nostalgia
by DLRS, Aug 25, 2009
Anyone who is interested in Central America or has been there, in particular to Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua, should find this memoir extremely absorbing. It is a travelogue in the true sense of ... Read More
