Jan Morris was born in 1926 of a Welsh father and an English mother, and when she is not travelling she lives with her partner Elizabeth Morris in the top left-hand corner of Wales, between the mountains and the sea. Her books include
Coronation Everest,
Venice,
The Pax Britannica Trilogy (
Heaven's Command,
Pax Britannica, and
Farewell the Trumpets), and
Conundrum. She is also the author of ...