Welcome

Here’s my latest quest – how do we find a little balance and contentment in this over-stressed modern world? In Urban Worrier: Adventures in the Lost Art of Letting Go, I tried cliff-jumping, clowning, meditation and even (yikes) naturism, before stumbling on the unexpected in the New Mexican desert. Think of it as a lovingly-packaged midlife crisis with added adrenalin and a happy ending.

Alternatively, you can nose through my other books, articles and random stuff I like - or have a chat on my blog or even book me for an event. And don’t forget to check out the delinquent monkeys on my new radio archive page. Go on, you know you want to…

My Other Books

Adrift in Caledonia
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ONE clear morning in May, Nick Thorpe left his Edinburgh flat, ducked off the commuter route and hitched a ride aboard a little white canal boat, heading west towards the sea…

It was the first mutinous step in a delightful boat-hopping odyssey that would take him 2500 miles through Scotland’s canals, lochs and coastal waters, from the industrial Clyde to the scattered islands of Viking Shetland.

Eight Men and a Duck
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ON A fateful South American bus trip, journalist Nick Thorpe overheard an improbable plan: to sail 2,500 miles to Easter Island on a boat made of reeds. Intrigued by this modern-day Kon-Tiki, he blagged his way on board only to find himself with nagging questions.

Eight Men and a Duck charts this most eccentric of Pacific voyages as it lurched between high drama and high farce…