Jason Goodwin

Jason Goodwin was born in 1964. He was joint winner of the Spectator/Sunday Telegraph Young Writer of the Year Award in 1987, and has travelled extensively in the Far East and India. His first book, The Gunpowder Gardens: Travel Through India and China in Search of Tea, was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Awards in 1991, and his second, On Foot to the Golden Horn: A Walk to Istanbul, was winner of the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1993. He is also the author of the highly acclaimed Lords of the Horizon: A History of the Ottoman Empire. He divides his time between West Sussex and the South of France.