A journalist, writer, and broadcaster, Paul Clements is the author of five travel books and a biography of Richard Hayward, adapted for BBC television.
He knew Jan Morris personally for thirty years, edited a collection of tributes to her on her 80th birthday, and spent four months at Oxford University where he wrote the first critical study of her work, published by University of Wales Press (1998).
A former BBC assistant editor, he is a recipient of the Reuter Journalist’s Fellowship Programme, a Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and a member of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives with his wife and son in Belfast.
Books in order of publication:
Irish shores: A journey round the rim of Ireland – 1993
The Height of Nonsense – 2005
Burren Country: Travels Through an Irish Limestone Landscape – 2011
Romancing Ireland: Richard Hayward 1892 -1964 – 2014
Wandering Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way: From Banba’s Crown to World’s End – 2016
Shannon Country – 2021
Jan Morris: life from both sides – 2022
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