A Report of Fearless Imagination
Simon Jinkins, The Times
About me
I Turn My Experiance
into a Story.
My Vision
My vision is to use writing as a tool of documentation, memory, and social understanding — to map shifting cultural, environmental, and urban landscapes. Whether exploring the streets of Hebron, the roads of England, or Britain’s imagined future, I aim to create work that endures, informs, and invites reflection.
This vision also shapes public engagements, such as speaking at the screening of Leo the Last at The Garden Cinema on January 14th, 2025, where I will discuss the film and its relevance to contemporary issues.
My Mission
My mission is to investigate, observe, and communicate with precision across journalism, long-form reportage, and narrative nonfiction. Over more than three decades, I have written for publications including The New Statesman, The Guardian, and The TLS, covering subjects ranging from urban change to political tension to environmental transformation.
This commitment extends to projects like English Journeys, a return to the places where I grew up; my ongoing urban storm diary; and my essay on Leo the Last, examining its connection to the estate that later included Grenfell Tower.
My Goal
My goal is to continue producing rigorous, deeply researched writing that illuminates the places, histories, and people that shape our world. Through books such as Leadville: A Biography of the A40 — winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award — The City of Abraham: A Journey through Hebron, and The Great Flood: Travels Through A Sodden Landscape, featured as a Radio 4 Book of the Week, I aim to document landscapes, histories, and social realities with clarity and honesty. My forthcoming book, 2060: A Journey in Search of a Map, continues that pursuit by exploring Britain’s possible future.
MY WORK
My Best Seller
“Platt’s writing combines sharp reportage with a poet’s eye for a striking image.”
“Engrossing”
The Sunday Times
“compelling”
Stephen Howe, The Independent
“exquisitely written”
Zadie Smith, Observer Books of the Year
I am keeping an urban storm diary, posted here, which I will update from time to time.
In 2012, I wrote a series of articles for The New Statesman called English Journeys, in which I went back to parts of England where I grew up (Hull, Essex, Newcastle, Liverpool and London) They are posted here. I am keeping an urban storm diary, posted here, which I will update from time to time.
find more catgory
- Floods & Climate change
- English Journeys
- Other English Journeys
- The Middle East
My New Release
July 7, 2021
The City of Abraham is a journey through one of the world’s most divided cities – Hebron, the only place in the West Bank where Palestinians and Israelis live side by side. It begins with a hill called Tel Rumeida, the site of ancient Hebron, where the patriarch Abraham – father of the Jews and the Arabs – was supposed to have lived when he arrived in the Promised Land. Through a mixture of travel writing, reportage and interviews, Platt tells the history of the hill and the city in which it stands, and explores the mythic roots of the struggle to control the land.
“Platt’s writing combines sharp reportage with a poet’s eye for a striking image.”
Karl Whitney, The Guardian
Testimonial
What they say about my book ?
" auris eget maximus eros. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas "
Home
A Report of Fearless Imagination Simon Jinkins, The Times About me I Turn My Experiance into a Story. I have