Anthony Sattin is a British writer and broadcaster who has been described as ‘a cross between Indiana Jones and a John Buchan hero’ and ‘one of the key influences on travel writing today.’ 

A graduate of Malcolm Bradbury’s University of East Anglia Creative Writing programme, his fiction has appeared in magazines and anthologies and was published by Cape. His non-fiction includes The Gates of Africa, the story of the world’s first geographical society and the search for Timbuktu, and Lifting the Veil, a history of travellers in Egypt from 1768 to 1956. The Pharaoh’s Shadow tells of Anthony’s search for Egypt’s surviving ancient culture. Anthony discovered and edited Florence Nightingale’s letters from Egypt, which provided the inspiration for A Winter on the Nile, his account of parallel journeys to Egypt made by Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert, a book of the year in the FT, Telegraph, Independent and other publications. His most recent work, Young Lawrence, tells the story of T.E. Lawrence and the Middle East on the eve of World War I, and has been hailed a key work in the field.

His award-winning journalism on travel and books has appeared regularly in the Sunday Times, Financial Times, Conde Nast Traveller and publications around the world. Anthony contributed a regular book column to the Sunday Times for ten years. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, editorial advisor on Geographical Magazine, he is also a founder-member of Travel Intelligence and ASTENE (the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East).

For many years, Anthony was a director of the Principal Film Company and has written, advised and presented on television and radio productions, including the BBC’s The Thirties in Colour. His radio work includes a 45 minute documentary on the writer and traveller Jan Morris for BBC Radio 3, ‘Travels Round My House.’

Anthony lives in London and travels extensively, typically spending at least three months each year in North Africa and the Middle East.

He is represented by Peter Straus at Rogers Coleridge and White. Contactable at: www.rcwlitagency.com/agents/peter-straus/

For some interviews with Anthony, please follow: https://www.stanfords.co.uk/blog/the-anthony-sattin-interview/