Barnaby Rogerson

A masterly engagement with the most delicate and important of subjects - filled with gentle empathy, learning and rare balance - Rory Stewart Rogerson is an original - eloquent and always fascinating - William Dalrymple Recommended on The Rest is Politics and Empire At the heart of the Middle East, with its regional conflicts and proxy wars, is a 1400-year-old...

During years of travelling through North Africa, author Barnaby Rogerson has encountered a handful of stories so complicated that he could not place them into neat, tidy narratives. These are stories of characters who were neither distinctly good nor noticeably bad, neither malicious nor noble. In Search of Ancient North Africa is a journey into the ruins of a landscape...