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Rupert Wolfe-Murray

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Born

in Leeds, The United Kingdom

September 24, 1963

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Travel, Memoir, Humor and Comedy

Influences

George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut, Haruki Murakami

Member Since

February 2018

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Rupert Wolfe Murray started writing after being expelled from Tibet.

Rupert got his first break with the Daily Telegraph who paid him £500 for an eyewitness article about the riot he'd witnessed in Lhasa.

The travel book that followed, 9 Months in Tibet, was well received and one journalist described its humour as "Deadpan". A leading Tibetan scholar said that it was "unputdownable". In the foreword, Alexander McCall Smith describes it as "a highly readable and engaging book..."

Recently he has published a fairy tale, a book about his late mother (founder and director of Canongate Publishing) and a travel book about Nepal (Himalayan Bus Plunge). Next up is a book about Romania and one about the corruption of international adoptions.

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	9 Months in Tibet by Rupert Wolfe-Murray (Goodreads Author), Alexander McCall Smith (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1997 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Himalayan Bus Plunge: And Other Stories from Nepal 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wind and the Castle: A fairy tale inspired by Hermann Hesse 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Every fashion house has its own summer fantasy, and for Gucci, this season’s is a homecoming. The shoreline of Monaco’s Larvotto Beach is in bloom, with La Rose des Vents beach club fully-dressed in the House’s iconic Flora motif. Created by Vittorio Accornero in 1966 as a gift for Princess Grace of Monaco, the print turns 60 this year. Gucci is marking the anniversary in the principality that ins

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Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

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