Anthony Sattin

Writers bio:
Anthony Sattin is a writer, critic and broadcaster. Since completing a literature degree at Warwick University and an MA in creative writing at the University of East Anglia, he has mixed writing, reviewing and travelling. He is the author of several books including a novel Shooting the Breeze, and the highly acclaimed The Pharaoh's Shadow, the subject of a Radio 4 documentary.

His passion for the Middle East, where he has lived for some years, also led to the discovery of Florence Nightingale's unpublished letters from Egypt, which he edited, subsequently chosen as book of the week on Radio 4. He has written for television, radio and for numerous publications in the UK and abroad and is a regular contributor to the Sunday Times books and travel pages.

Based in London, his heart flits between the Middle East and Africa. He has recently written "The Gates of Africa: Death, Discovery and the Search for Timbuktu" (HarperCollins, £25, or via www.sattin.co.uk). 'Highly readable and ironically humorous, a well-rounded and definitive study of the openings up of the African interior.' Sunday Times