Sara’s career has taken her from The Sunday Times Insight team to Miami and Washington DC researching and writing investigative non-fiction books. The Cocaine Wars (a New York Times bestseller, nominated for an Edgar Award) and Hunting Marco Polo were published worldwide.

 

As a contract writer for publications that included The Sunday Times Magazine, the Telegraph Magazine and Conde Nast Traveller, she travelled the world while based in a mediaeval hilltop village in Provence overlooking olive trees and vines. Her next book, Living in Provence, sold 250,000 copies in ten territories.

 

Now back in London, she continues to find stories to excite and inspire her, working most recently as a freelance commercial copy writer and ghost writer for a company called Story Terrace, which has offices in London, New York and Los Angeles.

 

Clients have included a woman from South Sudan, who was born in a mud hut and didn’t wear shoes until she was 15 but who went on to higher education and to found a charity for her country’s internally-displaced women and children. Since becoming available on Amazon, the memoir has succeeded in attracting donors to the client’s charity, bringing positive change amidst great suffering.

 

More recently, Sara worked with the Archduke Joseph von Habsburg, who fled his Hungarian homeland as a child during the Second World War to live in exile for fifty years and to understand, finally and painfully, that he could never return. Originally commissioned as a memento simply for Joseph’s eight children, his son Nicolaus has ordered copies for every member of the Habsburg family.