Sara Wheeler. Jan Morris - A Life
Schedule
Thu, 09 Jul, 2026 at 06:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Mumbles Tabernacle | Swansea, WA
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Come and join Sara for the launch her acclaimed new biography, Jan Morris: A Life. Sara will be in conversation with Gareth Jones.A captivating authorised biography of the legendary
writer Jan Morris, published to coincide with the
centenary of her birth.
When Jan Morris joined the 1953 Everest expedition and was
first to get news of the ascent back to London, she became
the most famous journalist in the world. So began a glittering
career covering the Eichmann trial, interviewing Che Guevara
and scooping t he story of Suez collusion. Morris transitioned
in the early seventies and documented the experience
in Conundrum . She was a pioneer and her books,
including Venice and the Pax Britannica trilogy, have inspired
readers across the globe.
Here, renowned travel writer and biographer Sara Wheeler
uncovers the complexity of this twentieth - century icon to
reveal a mosaic of contradictions. Morris ’s work conjured the
spirit of place, yet her late masterpiece Trieste celebrates ‘the
meaning of nowhere’; she was a Welsh nationalist who wasn’t
Welsh; a preacher of kindness with a cruel side. This is a
portrait of an astonishing life, and a scintillating story of
longing, travel and never reaching home.
‘A breathtakingly good read.
Coherent, comprehensive and
compulsive.’ MICHAEL PALIN
‘A superb achievement . . . It is
hard to imagine this biography
will ever be superseded.’
COLIN THUBRON
‘Wonderful – witty . . . worthy of
its subject.’ PAUL THEROUX
‘A masterly biography.’
SIMON JENKINS
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