Peter Nasmyth is a writer, photographer and former arts journalist published in most major UK magazines and newspapers, along with American publications such as the Washington Post. He has lived between Tbilisi and London for the last twenty years and co-founded the first English language bookshop, Prospero, in Tbilisi. He is currently involved in forming the National Trust in Georgia.
'Nasmyth is an ideal chronicler... read his quirky, entertaining, sometimes surreal book' * Literary Review * Indispensable to all serious travellers to the Caucasus' * Times Literary Supplement * 'The best book on post-Soviet Georgia' * Independent * 'Elegiac, quirky, readable, deeply knowledgeable... the best cultural-historical introduction to that tempestuous land' * Daily Telegraph *