A Million Bullets (2008), about Nato’s campaign in southern Afghanistan, was the British Army’s Military Book of the Year, and became required reading on many Staff College courses This was followed by Taliban (2010), an argument for a negotiated settlement to the Afghan war.
In 2013 came The World’s Most Dangerous Place, which deals with Somalia and its diaspora, and the security threat posed to the West by the Al Qaida affiliate, Al Shabaab. It was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and Paddy Power Political Book Awards International Affairs Book of the Year.
There followed in 2017 Al Britannia, My Country, a wide-ranging survey of British Islam which was shortlisted for the British Academy Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding. His latest book, In Search of the River Jordan (2023), deals with the water politics of Israel-Palestine.
He lives in Edinburgh with his four children.
A Million Bullets (2008), about Nato’s campaign in southern Afghanistan, was the British Army’s Military Book of the Year, and became required reading on many Staff College courses This was followed by Taliban (2010), an argument for a negotiated settlement to the Afghan war.
In 2013 came The World’s Most Dangerous Place, which deals with Somalia and its diaspora, and the security threat posed to the West by the Al Qaida affiliate, Al Shabaab. It was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and Paddy Power Political Book Awards International Affairs Book of the Year.
There followed in 2017 Al Britannia, My Country, a wide-ranging survey of British Islam which was shortlisted for the British Academy Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding. His latest book, In Search of the River Jordan (2023), deals with the water politics of Israel-Palestine.
He lives in Edinburgh with his four children.