Andrew Sanger


Andrew Sanger is a British freelance journalist and travel writer, best known for many popular travel guides to France and the French regions, although he has also authored more than 40 guides to other locations, and five novels.
Sanger was educated at the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle in London, Colchester Royal Grammar School, University College London and Sussex University.
Sanger is the author of The Vegetarian Traveller, a guide to the foods and eating habits around Europe and the Mediterranean, which was one of the first travel guides for vegetarians and was a best-seller in the United Kingdom; and a commentary on Robert Louis Stevenson's An Inland Voyage. His guide Exploring Rural France gave early encouragement to ordinary tourists visiting France to get off the beaten track and discover more about the country. The book gave a rise to a series published by A&C Black urging the same approach to other countries. Sanger also published a memoir or novel, Love, describing life in Berkeley, California during the "Summer of Love" and travels during the hippy era, including the "hippie trail" to India.
Sanger's novel The J-Word, about secular Jewish identity, is not on a travel-related theme, and is set in the neighbourhood of Golders Green in his native north-west London. The J-Word featured at London's Hampstead & Highgate Literary Festival and Jewish Book Week. The J-Word is a set reading list book on the "Judaism as a Lived Religion" course at Lund University, Sweden. Sanger's novel The Slave, about human trafficking and slavery, is also set in Golders Green. The Unknown Mrs Rosen, about a courageous former spy now elderly and in need of care, has a more evident travel connection with settings in various parts of the UK, Germany and France. On Romford Road, a four-part story of a hundred-year feud between two families rising from poverty to prosperity, set almost entirely in the backstreets and housing estates of East London, has been described "a companion to the social history of East London."
In addition, Sanger has written hundreds of articles, almost all on travel, for British newspapers and other publications. From 1990 to 1999, he was editor of the French Railways customer magazine Top Rail. In 1994 and 1996 he received Travelex Travel Writers' Awards for articles published in BBC Holiday Magazine and in Rail Europe Magazine. Sanger is listed as a founder member of travel media organisation Travelwriters UK.

Selected bibliography

  • On Romford Road.
  • The Unknown Mrs Rosen.
  • DK Eyewitness Top 10 Dublin.
  • Love.
  • The Slave.
  • FootprintFocus Normandy Coast.
  • FootprintFocus Rouen & Upper Normandy.
  • Driving Guide – Provence & the Cote d'Azur.
  • Driving Guide – Loire Valley.
  • FootprintFrance Normandy.
  • The J-Word.
  • Michelin Green Guide France. 2008.
  • AA Essential Spiral Tenerife. AA, 2007.
  • AA Essential Spiral Lanzarote. AA, 2007.
  • Drive Around Loire Valley. Thomas Cook, 2007, 2009.
  • Drive Around Burgundy. Thomas Cook, 2007, 2009.
  • Drive Around Provence. Thomas Cook, 2007, 2009.
  • AA Essential Channel Hopping.
  • AA Essential Lanzarote & Fuerteventura.
  • AA Essential Tenerife.
  • AA Explorer Israel.
  • AA TwinPack Lanzarote & Fuerteventura.
  • AA TwinPack Tenerife.
  • An Inland Voyage.
  • Discover Brussels.
  • Exploring Rural France.
  • Exploring Rural Ireland.
  • Eyewitness Top 10 Dublin.
  • Fodors Exploring Israel.
  • God tur til Lanzarote & Fuerteventura.
  • HotSpots Lanzarote.
  • Israel – US Library of Congress Talking Book.
  • Languedoc & Roussillon.
  • Long Weekends in France.
  • Must See Brussels.
  • Ontdek Landelijk Frankrijk.
  • Ontdek Landelijk Ierland..
  • Rough Guide to France, The.
  • Signpost Guide Burgundy and the Rhone Valley.
  • Signpost Guide Loire Valley.
  • Signpost Guide: Provence & the Cote d'Azur.
  • South-West France.
  • Vegetarian Guide to Britain & Europe, The.
  • Vegetarian Traveller, The.
  • Vegetarier op Reis, De.
  • Villages of Northern France.
  • Viva Guide Israel.
  • ''Viva Twin Lanzarote & Fuerteventura.''