Julian Evans

Julian Evans is a British-Australian writer.

In 1990 he left his office job to become a writer and spent six months travelling among the islands of the south Pacific Ocean. In 1992 he published Transit of Venus: Travels in the Pacific. This launched him on a career as a writer of books, travel articles, essays, and radio and television documentaries on literary subjects. In 2008 he published Semi-Invisible Man: the Life of Norman Lewis; Evans wrote about writer and adventurer Norman Lewis after Lewis described Evans’s Transit of Venus as “far and away the best book about the Pacific of our times.” His most recent book is Undefeatable: Odesa in Love and War (2024), a personal history of his involvement with the city over 30 years. He is also a reviewer for several newspapers and magazines, including the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement and Prospect.

Books in order of publication:

Transit of Venus: Travels in the Pacific (Secker & Warburg 1992, Pantheon 1992 (US);

Semi-Invisible Man: the Life of Norman Lewis (Jonathan Cape, June 2008, Picador June 2009)

Undefeatable: Odesa in Love and War (2024)