The Dancer And The TerroristMore Intelligent LifeJohn Shakespeare lived in Peking in 1936. Now in his 80s, he has just gone back there for the first time. His son Nicholas Shakespeare tells the tale. Read on ‘More Intelligent Life’ …

Beyond The Killing Fields More Intelligent Life Nearly 50 years ago, Nicholas Shakespeare’s family was forced to flee Cambodia. Now he and his father return for the first time since the fall of the Khmer … Read on ‘More Intelligent Life’ …

The dancer and the terrorist by Nicholas Shakespeare “Amigo?” The interrogator – a stout policewoman in a tight black jersey – sits behind a scuffed counter. “Si, amigo,” I say, and sense her rolled eyes. “Where are you from?” “England.” Then: “Do you get many visitors from [...]

Anita Goulden The angel of Piura Telegraph 12 Nov 2010 – For decades a Manchester woman named Anita Goulden ran a home for destitute children in a town in northern … By Nicholas Shakespeare. Read on ‘The Telegraph’ …

Return of the Native by Nicholas Shakespeare My sister and I grew up in Brazil during the 1960s. Thirty years later, my sister went back to work with street children in the Pelhourinho district of Bahia, where she fell in love with a former street boy, a carefree [...]

Guzmán Found In 1988, Nicholas Shakespeare published an acclaimed article about his search for the leader of Sendero Luminoso, the world’s deadliest revolutionary organisation. He never met Abimael Guzmán. That was the point. Noone did. Then, in September 1992,  Guzmán was discovered. One year after his dramatic arrest, [...]

Tasmanian lights by Nicholas Shakespeare For much of the past decade I have lived on a nine-mile beach with no land between my deck and the ice floes of Antarctica. What anchored me here, initially, was the quality of the light, like an overexposed photograph, but possessing [...]