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Edited by Sarah Champion
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, Penguin
ISBN: 0140281088, 0241140439
Territory: UK and Commonwealth
Formats: Trade paperback; mass market paperback (320 pages)
Publication date: 3 June 1999, 3 February 2000
With seventeen original stories from acclaimed and bestselling authors, this collection puts a whole new perspective on the travel writing genre.
Delhi, Marseilles, Tel Aviv, Berlin, Jerusalem, Karachi, Nevada, Katmandu, Vienna, New Orleans . . . The characters in these stories (some true, most invented) cross the globe in search of escape and adventure from kibbutz to beach resort, from drug smuggling to football.
This is a book for anyone who has ever had a grim experience in a hotel room, backpacked in Asia, taken a last-minute package holiday or contracted a strange tropical disease. This book is not about elephant trekking in India, the anthropology of African tribes or the lost world of the Raj.
Contents
Martyn Bedford 'A Representative in Automotive Components'
Howard Marks 'Prison Leave'
Helena Mulkerns 'Ship Rock'
Esther Freud 'Such a Nice Time'
Toby Litt 'My Cold War: February 1998'
Will Self 'In the Union of Facelessness'
Jean McNeil 'Bethlehem'
Nicholas Blincoe 'My Kazakh Lover'
John King 'The Beasts of Marseille'
Douglas Coupland 'She Swallowed Her Pearls on the Day of the Revolution'
Geoff Dyer 'Horizontal Drift'
Emily Perkins 'We're Here, Anderson Says'
William Sutcliffe 'The Institute'
Grant Morrison 'It was the '90s'
James Flint 'Oh to Play Golf on Mars'
Emer Martin 'A Sacrificial Shoe'
Simon Lewis 'Justified and Ancient'
Press
Fortune Hotel, Amazon.co.uk, 1999
Trippers' Tales, Ra Page, New Statesman, July 1999
Pop will Shit Itself with Grant Morrison, Jonathan Ellis, PopImage.com
Translations
Fortune Hotel has been translated into German
Sarah Champion also edited the Disco Biscuits, Shenanigans and Disco 2000l anthologies.
