Nominated for the Press Association's Travel Writer of the Year Award in 2005 and 2006, Sarah Shuckburgh writes with enthusiasm and a self-deprecating sense of fun, which conveys her enjoyment of her travels and her sharp eye for interesting detail, whether in distant and exotic places, or nearer to home.

Combining freelance journalism with her job as head of Sociology at Queen's Gate School in London, Sarah travels and writes at weekends and during school holidays. Since 2001, she has been a regular contributor to the Sunday Telegraph Travel Section, and to the website www.travelintelligence.net. She has also contributed to the Daily Telegraph travel pages.

Other writing by Sarah Shuckburgh includes four opera libretti, commissioned and performed by various children's music groups, including one for the W11 Children's Opera in London. She has also written obituaries for the Times and the Telegraph.

Sarah and her husband, entomologist and translator Guillaume de Rougemont, divide their time between London and rural Normandy.