Helena Drysdale

Helena is the author of five works of 'creative non-fiction': Alone through China and Tibet (Constable 1986), Dancing with the Dead (Hamish Hamilton 1991), Looking for George, (Picador, 1996), and Mother Tongues (Picador, 2001). Her most recent book, Strangerland, was published by Picador in 2006.

Looking for George was shortlisted for both the Esquire/Waterstones/Apple Non-fiction award (1995) and the PEN/JRAckerley Award for Autobiography in the same year. Helena has also written and presented a documentary, Dancing with the Dead, for Granada TV. She makes regular appearances as a broadcaster and lecturer. She is a course tutor for the Arvon Foundation, and a Royal Literary Fellow teaching writing skills at Exeter University.

Helena is married to painter Richard Pomeroy and they live in Somerset with their two daughters.