Last night we had an evening of delicious conversation with former Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award-winner Caroline Eden as she spoke to Olia Hercules about her new book Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Journeys.
Online event to celebrate the Launch of John Murray Journeys
On July 11th 2022 we teamed up with John Murray Press for an online event celebrating the republication of three titles for their Journeys series: In a Land Far from Home by Syed Mujtaba Ali, introduced by Taran Khan; Desert Soul by Isabelle Eberhardt, introduced by William Atkins; and Through Khiva to Golden Samarkand by Ella Christie, introduced by Caroline Eden.
The event was hosted by Nick Hunt (author of Outlandish) with Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award-winning authors; William Atkins, Taran Khan and Caroline Eden who introduce us to these three remarkable stories, sharing with us the reasons they love them and reading some short extracts. We were also joined by translator Nazes Afroz who translated In a Land Far from Home from Bengali to English.
Continue reading Launch of JourneysExtracted from Red Sands by Caroline Eden (Quadrille, £26) Photography © Ola O. Smit and Theodore Kaye.
In the shattered rear-view mirror, the land was pink from the rising sun. The fractured looking glass rendered the desert view, mainly sand dunes, scrub and small hills, broken and repetitive. On the road, between the cities of Bukhara and Khiva – some stretches good, others badly potholed – there was a sense of slowly evaporating, of being dwarfed by the Kyzylkum (‘red sand’) Desert.
Continue reading Red Sands: Reportage and Recipes Through Central Asia, from Hinterland to HeartlandRead an extract and enjoy a recipe for spicy meat dolma from the wonderful Samarkand: Recipes & Stories from Central Asia & the Caucasus ahead of our event with the authors. Continue reading Lunch on the road to Samarkand
