Christine Toomey is a celebrated journalist whose extensive international reporting has informed her distinctive literary voice. Her work delves into complex foreign affairs, offering readers a nuanced perspective honed by decades of experience on the ground. Through compelling narratives, she illuminates the human stories behind global events, making her a significant chronicler of our times.
In The Saffron Road, Toomey follows in the footsteps of earlier generations of Buddhist nuns to trace the routes by which the philosophy has spread from a solitary order in a remote area of India in the 5th century BC, via 1950s San Francisco where Zen was popularised by the Beat generation, to the globally-renowned practitioners of mindfulness of today
A memoir set in rural Italy, and a journey through history about a series of earthquakes that devastated the region