Sarah Anderson I’ve already thought of the subjects for my YouTube videos – but I start to think about the actual content. Rupert, who’s making them for me, has suggested that it will be best to make about 6 short films. I think the idea is to put them up over a period of weeks. Help I’ve … Read more
The proofs have arrived from Antony, the designer. I print them out – 260 pages. So this is what the book will look like. I can’t believe its already got to this stage. I started thinking about this book about 12 years ago and suddenly its all coming together. A panicky moment when I think … Read more
I get a bus to the West End to meet Steph who is going to advise me about publicity. After two hours of drinking coffee – my head is reeling with ideas. As I work on my own its incredibly nice to have someone else to bounce ideas off and between us we come up … Read more
Sarah Anderson and Miranda Davies talked about their book at Waterstones to a standing room only audience. After the signing they went for a drink – the glasses on the desk, despite appearances, only have water in them …
Sarah Anderson, co-author with Miranda Davies of Inside Notting Hill, has a particular place in the story of this London district. It was to her Travel Bookshop that Richard Curtis came for inspiration for his film Notting Hill, which went on to feature Hugh Grant as the owner of a bookshop visited by Julia Roberts. … Read more
Inside Notting Hill Rachman, Profumo, Bob Marley, Malcolm X… oh, and Hugh Grant. They’ve all left their mark on London’s Trustafarian suburb says the author of a guide. I’d been nagged for years to do an update of Inside Notting Hill – a book I’d first published under the imprint Portobello Publishing in 2001. The … Read more
Tim Lott has written a piece called My Notting Hill. He was born in 1956 in Southall, Middlesex and studied Politics and History at the London School of Economics. Click here to read more about Tim Lott Virginia Ironside has been a writer and journalist all her life and now has a weekly column on … Read more
Written by Sarah Anderson and publishing in the Independent on 23/10/2006 With the publication in 1958 and success of A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, Eric Newby created a new and lively genre of British post-war travel writing. Before attempting to conquer the Hindu Kush, Newby had been working for the fashion house Worth-Paquin; … Read more
by Sarah Anderson, published in the Independent, July 2003 There are few writers who produce elegant, witty and perfectly-pitched prose and yet remain unknown outside a small but devoted band of admirers. Norman Lewis was one. Lewis loved the craft of writing and wrote about 700 words in cramped longhand every day; words which were … Read more
By Sarah Anderson, published in the Independent, 19/02/2002 Thor Heyerdahl was one of those rare human beings who managed to realize his dreams. He achieved this by a mixture of determination, stubbornness, in a trusting of oral tradition, by practical experiment and by listening to people. Heyerdahl was born in 1914 in the coastal town … Read more