the stopping places
The Stopping Places Out Now in Paperback
Damian Le Bas‘s debut travelogue, The Stopping Places, is now available in paperback. Congratulations to Damian. Find a copy here, or at your local bookshop.
Damian in Hexham
Damian Le Bas will be speaking at Hexham Book Festival this weekend. See him reading from his travelogue, The Stopping Places, at Queen’s Hall in Hexham library on Saturday...
Damian on Word of Mouth
Damian Le Bas will be interviewed for Radio 4’s Word of Mouth. Tune in here on Tuesday 7th May. Damian’s travelogue The Stopping Places is out in paperback on 2nd May. Find...
Damian Shortlisted for Travel Writing Award
Damian Le Bas‘s The Stopping Places has been shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award. Congratulations to Damian. See the full shortlist here. The winner will...
Watch Damian’s Very British History
Damian Le Bas has hosted a documentary entitled Romany Gypsies on BBC1, as part of the series A Very British History. It explores the tumultuous history of the UK’s Romany community during...
“It Was About Happiness”
Damian Le Bas has been interviewed by The Idries Shah foundation. ” Humans are tougher than we sometimes think we are. But I also found that you can’t cure everything...
“Deserves to Be Widely Read”
Romany Routes magazine has reviewed Damian Le Bas‘s The Stopping Places. “This book deserves to be widely read and to become a standard text for anyone seeking to understand more about...
Damian in Wigtown
Damian Le Bas will be speaking at Wigtown Book Festival on Monday 24th September. Find out more here. Find your copy of Damian’s The Stopping Places here, or at your local bookshop...
The Stopping Places out in Audio Today
Damian Le Bas‘s The Stopping Places is now available as an audio book, read by Damian himself. Find your copy here. Congratulations to Damian. Catch up on his Proms interval interview...
Tonight! Radio 3 Prom interview
At about 8.15 tonight (23rd August) on BBC Radio 3, in Interval Proms Plus, new generation thinker Sophie Coulombeau will present… An introduction to Gypsy, Roma and Traveller culture...
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