Christina Lamb is an award-winning journalist who, since graduating from Oxford, has been an inveterate traveller, working for the Financial Times in Pakistan and Brazil and as a correspondent for the Sunday Times in South Africa. She is a Nieman fellow at Harvard University and also a fellow of the Royal Geographic Society. Her works include The Africa House and The Sewing Circles of Herat.

She is currently diplomatic correspondent for the Sunday Telegraph and lives with her husband and baby son in London.

Official Web Site: www.christinalamb.net