Andrew Sanger

Current

• Publisher at Travelwriters UK
• Publisher at Focus Guides
• Freelance travel writer, novelist and editor at Andrew Sanger

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Past

• Editor at Rail Europe Magazine

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Andrew Sanger’s Summary

I am a full-time professional travel writer, journalist and author.

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The J-Word:

Following publication of my novel The J-Word this year, I have spoken at London's Jewish Book Week, at Jewish cultural centre The Spiro Ark in central London, and to reading groups and community groups (Jewish and non-Jewish). Recently I was interviewed about The J-Word at Hampstead & Highgate Literary Festival.

The J-Word is about an elderly man who - with the help of his young grandson - seeks justice after being beaten up by antisemitic thugs. It explores the nature of secular Jewish identity.

The publisher is an award-winning independent, Snowbooks (http://www.snowbooks.com).

The J-Word will be published in America in January. Please contact me if you would like a copy for review.

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Current and recent work (2008-2009):

I am writing a guidebook to Normandy, commissioned by Footprint Travel Guides (http://www.footprintbooks.com), deadline November 2009.

Other current and recent work includes numerous city guides and updates, mainly on France, the UK, Israel and Belgium, for What's On When, Columbus World Travel Guide, Spectator Business Magazine, Livewire, bmi Voyager and the Jewish Chronicle.

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Latest of more than 30 book titles:

The J-Word (Snowbooks, 2009) - a novel
Drive Around Provence & the Cote d'Azur (3rd edn, Thomas Cook, 2009)
Drive Around Loire Valley (main author, 3rd edn, Thomas Cook, 2009)
Drive Around Burgundy & Rhone Valley (3rd edn, Thomas Cook, 2009)
Eyewitness Top 10 Dublin (new edn, co-author; Dorling Kindersley, 2009)
Michelin Green Guide France (new English edition, principal writer; 2008)
AA Essential Tenerife (new edn, AA, 2007)
AA Essential Lanzarote (new edn, AA, 2007)
Hot Spots Lanzarote (Thomas Cook, 2006)
AA Explorer Israel /Fodors Exploring Israel (AA/Fodors, 4th edition, 2006)

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Andrew Sanger’s Specialties:

France and all its regions; Ireland and all its regions including Northern Ireland; Israel, especially Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Galilee; French and Belgian Flanders, including Brussels; some Greek islands, especially Corfu and Crete; some Canary islands, especially Tenerife. I have also researched and written on San Francisco and northern California, the Great Lakes and New England. Outside of travel: Jewish issues.

Andrew Sanger’s Experience

• Publisher

  Travelwriters UK

  (Writing and Editing industry)

  2001 — Present (8 years )

  Membership organisation for professional travel media

• Publisher

  Focus Guides

  (Publishing industry)

  2000 — Present (9 years )

  Online travel guides

• Freelance travel writer, novelist and editor

  Andrew Sanger

  (Writing and Editing industry)

  1977 — Present (32 years )

  Contributor to numerous publications in print and online, author of some thirty guidebooks, and author of The J-Word (a novel; Snowbooks, 2009).

• Editor

  Rail Europe Magazine

  (Publishing industry)

  1990 — 1999 (9 years )

  Editorial planning, writing, commissioning, subbing, working within client's agreed budget

Additional Information

Andrew Sanger’s Interests:

Guidebook, author, travel, journalist, magazine, editor, novelist, novel, The J-Word, J-Word, Snowbooks, Jewish, issues, vegetarian, London, France, Israel

Andrew Sanger’s Groups:

Travelwriters UK, British Guild of Travel Writers, Society of Authors

•    LinkEds & writers
•    Writing Mafia
•    Informed Ideas For Writers
•    Travel Media Pros
•    Media & Entertainment Professionals
•    Travel Editors & Freelance Journalists
•    British Guild of Travel Writers
•    Magazine
•    World Travel Market - WTM
•    Jewish Writers Association
•    Travelwriters UK
•    Writers and Photographers unLimited

Andrew Sanger’s Honors:

ABTOF Travel Writer of the Year Awards - London, 2007 (Finalist - best online article on France);

ABTOF Travel Writer of the Year Awards - London, 2002 (Finalist - occupying two of the top four positions for the best travel writing on France);

Communicators In Business Awards - London, 1998 (Certificate of Merit for a Relaunched Publication - Editor [Rail Europe Magazine]);

Travelex Travel Writers' Awards - London, 1996 (Category winner, Best trade press article - 'Van Gogh's Visions of France' in Rail Europe Magazine);

Travelex Travel Writers' Awards - London, 1994 (Category winner, Best consumer magazine article - 'O Come All Ye Faithful' (about the Galilee, Israel) in BBC Holidays Magazine.

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