Damian Le Bas is a writer from the south coast of England. His first book The Stopping Places: a Journey through Gypsy Britain (2018) won the Somerset Maugham award, a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood award, and was shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. He is currently writing a book about the sea, diving and Atlantis, due to be published by Chatto & Windus in 2025.
Damian Le Bas
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The lorry
'What if it was a phantom lorry, and my grandfather, who always showed an interest in my writing, had driven it here from the afterlife to make sure I was hitting my targets every day?'
5th November 2025
Original Series
Our blood
Damian Le Bas, author of The Stopping Places: A Journey through Gypsy Britain, meditates on 'Traveller blood' and kinship.
26th July 2023
Damian Le Bas
Damian Le Bas is a writer from the south coast of England.