Jeremy Harding


Jeremy Harding is a British writer and journalist, based in the south of France. He is a contributing editor at London Review of Books. He is the author of books including Small Wars, Small Mercies, The Uninvited: Refugees at the Rich Man's Gate, Mother Country: Memoir of an Adopted Boy, and Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World.

Life and work

Harding was born in London, England, where he was placed for adoption at 11 days old by his Irish mother. He grew up in West London. He tells the story of his adoption and the search for his biological mother in the book Mother Country: Memoir of an Adopted Boy. He was later educated at Wellington College and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read English.
He is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books. He lives in France, an hour from Bordeaux, with his wife and three sons.

Publications

Publications by Harding

  • Small Wars, Small Mercies: Journeys in Africa's Disputed Nations. London: Penguin, 1993..
  • *The Fate of Africa: Trial by Fire. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993..
  • The Uninvited: Refugees at the Rich Man's Gate.
  • Mother Country: Memoir of an Adopted Boy.
  • Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World.
  • Analogue Africa: Notes on the Anti-Colonial Imagination. London: Verso Books, 2026..

    Publications with contributions by Harding

  • Arthur Rimbaud: Selected Poems and Letters. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2004.. Translated by Harding and John Sturrock.