Andrew Musgrave

Winner of the 2022 Bill Rollinson Prize for Landscape and Tradition, shortlisted for the Lakeland Book of the Year Award for The Lucks of Cumbria, and longlisted for the 2023 National Poetry Awards (UK).

As a teacher, Andrew Musgrave lived and worked in the United Kingdom and in the Middle East.

Fun Runs and Guns is his memoir as an expat in Yemen and Saudi Arabia.

Samak Fishing in Yemen is a pictorial parody of the Yemeni Tourist Board's advice against arriving in Yemen with salmon fishing tackle.

As a keen walker, the author has prepared a series of walking guides: Ambling Along Pennine Paths, and Rambling Through Lakeland Landscapes.

Andrew Musgrave has also produced several humorous and entertaining pictoral story books: The Last Wolf of Humphrey Head, Penny, a ghostly sprite that haunts inconsiderate hikers on Pen-y-Ghent; plus Orby, about a smug spider who lost her wings, and Spy (the adventures of a spiderling caught in a wing mirror).

The series, Children in Films, analyses the impact the movie industry has on the lives of child actors and how we perceive them.

'Press On Brave Hearts' and 'The Journeys of St Paul: from the paintings by George Musgrave', is his tribute to the poetic and artistic talents of his father who died in 2012.