Hugh Thomson

Hugh Thomson is a writer and filmmaker whose recent novel Viva Byron! imagines what might have happened if the poet had lived longer and gone to South America, as he always wanted to do

In England’s green and pleasant land

The idea came to me after I had just got back from South America after a long trip to Peru.  Perhaps because I was badly jetlagged, everything about England looked strange, different — and certainly worthy of as much exploration as I would give to a foreign country. The few other times I’ve ever had