A peripatetic freelance journalist specialising in longform narrative non-fiction; also travel hack, arts reviewer and commercial copywriter. Two books on the go, so juggler, too.

Areas of interest/expertise reflect my travels throughout the Americas, Europe and Central Asia, and include unrecognised nations, breakaway republics and contested borders; organised crime and the war on drugs; jazz, blues and world music; conservation and island biodiversity; arthouse cinema; labour movements and freighthopping; football and online gambling; indigenous cultures and ethnopharmacology; the Jim Crow era and the prison-industrial complex; whiskey/whisky.

Commissions welcome.

josephsullivanfurey@gmail.com
joseph.furey@sundaytimes.co.uk

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