Tigers In Red Weather

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A brilliant and beautiful travel book about love, escape, and that most mesmerising of animals: the tiger.

When Ruth Padel saw an advert for a cheap break to India, she decided to visit what she had always wanted to see: tropical jungle and a wildl

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Praise for Tigers In Red Weather

  • There are few women writing non-fiction today with such a sophisticated understanding of language, such a nuanced approach to style, and such a brazen willingness to engage with the big issues, personal and political. This is a gripping and informative book, always intriguing and occasionally dazzling - GUARDIANThrilling and surprising . . . her prose has an intense, lush quality . . . She has an adventurer's intrepid spirit and a poet's eye for detail and ear for dialogue - SUNDAY TELEGRAPHAn extraordinary travel-memoir . . . this is no mere gutsy travelogue, but a poet's attempt to do what a scientist does: "saying precisely what and how you saw" . . . utterly compelling - INDEPENDENTRuth Padel is a wonderful writer and she has produced perhaps the best book ever written on the places where tigers live - EVENING STANDARD

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Ruth Padel

Ruth Padel

Ruth Padel is an award-winning poet, journalist and broadcaster. She lives in North London with her daughter.

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