![]() ![]() He ‘walks’ the cities he writes about, researches them, imagines them, and arrives at a personal understanding of them. ![]() In 2009 New York was published, and in 2013, Paris.Rutherfurd is the quintessential Literary Tourist. Since then he has written (at least) six more bestsellers: Russka, a novel of Russia, London, The Forest, set in England’s New Forest which lies near Sarum, and two novels which cover the story of Ireland from the time just before Saint Patrick to the twentieth century. It was an instant international bestseller remaining on the New York Times Bestseller List for 23 weeks. Abandoning this career in the book trade in 1983, he returned to his childhood home to write Sarum, a historical novel with a ten-thousand year story-line, set in the area around Stonehenge. Educated locally, and at the universities of Cambridge and Stanford, he subsequently worked in political research, book-selling and publishing. One of 250 Bouquinistes by the Seine in Paris Edward Rutherfurd was born in England, in the cathedral city of Salisbury. ![]()
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