My bookshelf
I’m a bit of a bookworm and I always like to carry a book around with me wherever I go, so that I can dip in and out of it if I’m stuck on public transport or taking a flight somewhere.
What’s on my bedside table
Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media
By Nick Davies
The accidental guerrilla: fighting small wars in the midst of a big one
By David Kilcullen
Books on my shelf, waiting to be read
Guantanamo: My Journey
By David Hicks
People Like Us: Misrepresenting the Middle East
By Joris Luyendijk
Saving Darfur: Everyone’s Favourite African War
By Rob Crilly
Blackwater The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army
By Jeremy Scahill
Recent reads
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
By Mohsin Hamid
An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century
By James Orbinski
My Colombian death
By Matthew Thompson
Some favourite reads
Heart of Darkness
By Joseph Conrad
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
By Philip Gourevitch
Brave New World
By Aldous Huxley
The God of Small Things
By Arundhati Roy
The Great Gatsby
By F. Scott Fitzgerald
