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About lindsayhawdon

Lindsay Hawdon is a writer of travel, adventure and fiction. She began travelling at the age of eighteen. After leaving school, she spent three years roaming around Europe, Africa and India, hitching rides and sleeping under canvass. Her travel column, An Englishwoman Abroad, began in The Sunday Telegraph in 2000 and ran for seven years. Throughout that time she travelled to every continent, ventured across every terrain, experienced every climate, writing stories about her experiences and the people she encountered along the way. She has since travelled to over sixty countries and writes regularly for The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph, The Australian and The L.A Times. Her most recent column for The Sunday Times featured a fourteen month long trip around the Far East and Australia, accompanied by her two young children. Her debut novel, Jakob’s Colours, was published by Hodder and Stoughton in April 2015 and will be coming out in the US with Quercus in Jan 2016. She lives in Bath with her family. You can follow her on Twitter @lindsayhawdon

The Killing Fields

Posted on January 29, 2016 by lindsayhawdon

A story that inspired the writing of Jakob’s Colours. ‘In October 2011 I set off with my two young boys on a trip around South East Asia for a year.  Though Jakob’s Colours is set during WWII, the following story … Continue reading →

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In Search of Orange

Posted on January 21, 2016 by lindsayhawdon

The Rainbow Hunters: One Mother. Two Boys.  A trip around the world in search of seven colours, the first pigments, made by the first colour men, raising money for the charity War Child as they go. Cremona, Italy As we … Continue reading →

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In Search of Indigo

Posted on September 6, 2015 by lindsayhawdon

The Rainbow Hunters: One Mother. Two Boys.  A trip around the world in search of seven colours, the first pigments, made by the first colour men, raising money for the charity War Child as they go.   (South Carolina, USA) … Continue reading →

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In Search of Blue

Posted on June 14, 2015 by lindsayhawdon

The Rainbow Hunters: One Mother. Two Boys.  A trip around the world in search of seven colours, the first pigments, made by the first colour men, raising money for the charity War Child as they go.   (The Ovalle Valley, … Continue reading →

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In Search of Red

Posted on May 1, 2015 by lindsayhawdon

The Rainbow Hunters: One Mother. Two Boys.  A trip around the world in search of seven colours, the first pigments, made by the first colour men, raising money for the charity War Child as they go.   Uluru, Australia It … Continue reading →

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In Search of Violet

Posted on March 26, 2015 by lindsayhawdon

The Rainbow Hunters: One Mother. Two Boys.  A trip around the world in search of seven colours, the first pigments, made by the first colour men, raising money for the charity War Child as they go.         … Continue reading →

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In Search of Green

Posted on February 9, 2015 by lindsayhawdon

The Rainbow Hunters: One Mother. Two Boys.  A trip around the world in search of seven colours, the first pigments, made by the first colour men, raising money for the charity War Child as they go.   (Guiyang Province, China) … Continue reading →

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The Downward Flight

Posted on January 13, 2015 by lindsayhawdon

The Great Wall of China (Matianyu) It is not the Great Wall itself, rising up from the low lands to the high that the boys will remember. The immenseness of it running along the ridge of blue hazed mountains. The … Continue reading →

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In Search of Yellow:

Posted on December 2, 2014 by lindsayhawdon

The Rainbow Hunters: One Mother. Two Boys.  A trip around the world in search of seven colours, the first pigments, made by the first colour men, raising money for the charity War Child as they go. (Kashmir, India) At first … Continue reading →

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To Begin at the End

Posted on November 16, 2014 by lindsayhawdon

   (Cochin, India) He is there at the beginning of the day, on his hands and knees, marking out a giant square grid upon the dusty ground, on which he will begin his picture. Colours, made from rice flour, ground … Continue reading →

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