Dixe Wills

Biography


Dixe Wills writes a monthly column for culture magazine Third Way and has contributed sections for two books produced by the football magazine When Saturday Comes. A former human rights reporter in Guatemala, he now lives in the relative safety of Bethnal Green.

Books


New World Order: Every Country on Earth. Sorted. (HARDBACK)

Nation states - you've got to have them, I suppose. But how much do we actually know about them? If you were drugged, blindfolded and parachuted into a foreign country, would you know you were in Belgium merely by picking up a handful of soil and tossing it into the air? If not, it's about time you read New World Order, the guide that cuts through the piffle to nail down the essence of every sing…


New World Order: Every Country on Earth. Sorted. (PAPERBACK)

Left-field geographer and anti-travel author Dixe Wills presents a uniquely new look at each of the 199 countries of the world. With a handy grading system to reveal who are the globe's real top nations and which ones are letting the side down on a monumental scale, Dixe Wills goes in search of, and definitively reveals, the best country in the World. 'Too many people believe that one country is …


Places to Hide ... In England, Scotland and Wales (PAPERBACK)

Sometimes facing up to your problems is just not an option. Dixe Wills reveals the ultimate rural, coastal, urban and mountainous getaways for when life gets a bit too much ... Places to Hide offers a huge range of hiding places throughout Britain, from a discreet corner of the urban jungle of Birmingham to somewhere just off the coast between Talsarnau and Portmeirion. It gives helpful hints on …


Places to Hide: In England, Scotland & Wales (HARDBACK)

Praise for Dixie Wills' The Z to Z of Great Britain: 'Exquisitely dotty, yet irresistibly charming' Stephen Fry 'A jocular guide' Sunday Telegraph   'A champion of all things Z' Observer (Travel Book of the Week) There comes a time in everyone's life when facing up to problems is simply not an option. That's when Places to Hide can help - offering a wide range of cunning hiding pla…


The Z-Z of Great Britain

"Exquisitely dotty, yet irresistibly charming. A project so pointless as to be vital to our national well-being.? Stephen Fry From Zawn Organ, Cornwall to Zoar in Shetland via Zion Place in Somerset and Zulu Farm, Oxfordshire, The Z-Z of Great Britain is, arguably, the definitive work on every town, village and speck on the map that begins with a zed. Providing an essential profile of each and e…


The Z-Z of Great Britain (paperback)

'Exquisitely dotty, yet irresistibly charming. A project so pointless as to be vital to our national well-being.' Stephen Fry 'A champion of all things Z? Observer Travel Book of the Week 'A jocular guide ? Dixe Wills has boldly gone to these backs of beyond to prove that we don?t need to? Sunday Telegraph Think for a moment what life is like for the letter Z. Largely neglected, it…