INTERNATIONAL NEWSPAPERS
Articles for The New York Times, New Zealand Herald
UK NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS
Articles published in The Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Observer, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, Financial Times, Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, Independent, Independent on Sunday, Daily Express, Sunday Express, Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, Daily Star, Sunday Correspondent, Today, The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday, The Herald
UK REGIONAL NEWSPAPERS
Articles for the Evening Standard (London), Metro, the Aberdeen Press and Journal, Daily News
MAGAZINES
Articles published in The New Statesman, The Spectator, Reader’s Digest, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Tatler, GQ, House and Garden, Good Housekeeping, Country Living, Country and Town House, Red, Hemispheres (United Airlines), N (Norwegian Airlines), High Life (British Airways), Vera (Virgin Atlantic), Selamta (Ethiopian Airlines), WizzAir Magazine, Travel Africa, Prima, Screen International, Midweek, Ms London, Homes Overseas, A Place in the Sun, Coast, The Week, Company, Woman’s Weekly, BUPA 37 Degrees, Junior, Jetaway, Bluewings, Germanwings, Nasair, Morning Calm, P&O Cruises Pacific magazine, B.there!, Voyager, easyJet Traveller, Zing magazine, RAF News, Self Build Homes, Select Traveller, France, Living France, Italia, Completely London, London Homes and Property Magazine, The Resident, Greenwich Visitor, Selling Travel, Black + Green Magazine, Emirates Portfolio magazine and others
WEBSITES
Weather2Travel, LoveExploring, Wanderlust, High50.com, WorldTravelGuide, Britain’sFinest, SimplyLuxuryHolidays, SimonSeeks, Traverati, student.com, gulfnews.com, travelnews.ch
SUBSTACK
Travel newsletter: Travel: the inside track
BOOKS
Cameroon (Bradt), London for Free (Pan), Fun for a Fiver in London (Pan), Fun for a Fiver in Amsterdam (Pan), Buying a Home: The Virgin Guide (Virgin), Rough Guide to Family Fun in Ireland (Rough Guides), Buying a Property Abroad (Cadogan), Retiring Abroad (Cadogan), Buying a Property in Spain (Foulsham), Buying a Home (Antelope Press), An introduction to self-build (Antelope Press), London’s Top 50 Free Museums (Antelope Press).
EDITING
Editor of national magazine Self Build Homes for its launch and for several issues from 2011-2012; editor and main feature writer of London magazine Black + Green
COLUMNS ETC
Past chief property correspondent/editor of the Daily Express and Sunday Express; weekly property column in the Daily Express at various times. Column in the Sunday Times travel section, ‘Free Time’, and a weekly property column in the Financial Times. Weekly column in regional newspaper The Daily News, and the Mail on Sunday’s weekly ‘Stranger than fiction’ column. Recruitment and education and some lifestyle pages usually written on a weekly basis for the Daily Express from 1997 to 2013. Column in London Homes and Property Magazine. Weekly English dispatches for Swiss travel website www.travelnews.ch
BLOGGING
londonzurich.com was a website written by travel journalists Ben West and Sonja Huesler, and as well as featuring travel tips, it highlights many of the culture clashes between the UK and Switzerland. In 2015 it was included in Globesession magazine’s top ten list of Swiss travel blogs.
CORPORATE/COPYWRITING/RESEARCH
Corporate clients have included Mercedes Benz, Credit Suisse, Sutton Young, Spracht Weberei (Switzerland), Banda Property, Bezier, CBS Outdoor, King’s Cross, BUPA, Norwich Union, the NHS. Research for television production companies.
Specialist journalistic subjects include travel, health, property, the arts, careers and education, although many other subjects written about too, as well as obituaries and contributions to diary columns such as the Evening Standard’s ‘Londoner’s Diary’ and ‘Peterborough’ at The Daily Telegraph. I am a member of TravelwritersUK and the British Guild of Travel Writers: in the course of travel writing I have visited around 85 countries.