Rupert Wolfe Murray

Rupert Wolfe Murray started writing after being expelled from Tibet.

He got his first break with the Daily Telegraph who paid him £500 for an eyewitness article about the riot he'd witnessed in Lhasa.

The travel book that followed, 9 Months in Tibet, was well received and one journalist described its humour as "Deadpan". A leading Tibetan scholar said that it was "unputdownable". In the foreword, Alexander McCall Smith describes it as "a highly readable and engaging book..."

Recently he has published a fairy tale, a book about his late mother (founder and director of Canongate Publishing) and a travel book about Nepal (Himalayan Bus Plunge). Next up is a book about Romania and one about the corruption of international adoptions.

Currently based in the UK, Wolfe Murray plans to bicycle round the world and write more fiction.