My reading year: 223 books read, two of my own published.
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My reading year: 223 books read, two of my own published.
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@irnewton.bsky.social discussing his new book with John Wroblewski. Global Games is available in paperback or eBook from Amazon www.youtube.com/watch?v=g78n...
15.12.2025 11:54 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Boris Becker about to abort his serve at the 1990 Wimbledon semi-final versus Goran Ivanisevic. (Photo by Richard Newton)
Cover of Global Games: Columns from Global Traveler by Richard Newton.
The photo that earned me the ire of Boris Becker and the entire Centre Court crowd, including Princess Diana. Full story - and many more - in my book, Global Games.
04.12.2025 09:28 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Ed, a West Virginian hunter, firing an arrow at a target propped against a motel sign.
Front cover of Global Games by Richard Newton.
That time my archery lesson in a motel car park was stopped by the police - only for us to discover we'd impaled the target on the motel sign. One of many stories in my new book, Global Games - a compilation of columns from Global Traveler magazine. Out now in paperback and ebook at Amazon.
03.12.2025 08:25 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Cover of 'Global Games: Columns from Global Traveler' by Richard Newton, featuring cartoons of people participating in a wide variety of sports.
Back cover of 'Global Games: Columns from Global Traveler' by Richard Newton
Available soon. A compilation of more than ninety columns by @irnewton.bsky.social originally published in Global Traveler magazine. "Dispatches from a lifetime spent chasing down the strangest, boldest, and most exhilarating sporting traditions on the planet."
25.11.2025 14:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today would have been Richard Burton's 100th birthday. Go behind the scenes of the most famous relationship in the world in Taylor & Burton in Africa by @irnewton.bsky.social. Available at Amazon in hardback, paperback and for Kindle.
10.11.2025 08:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Richard Burton died on this day in 1984. Witness his relationship to Elizabeth Taylor on safari and behind closed doors in Taylor & Burton in Africa. Just $5.31 for Kindle, or free with Kindle Unlimited. www.amazon.com/Taylor-Burto...
05.08.2025 13:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Carlton Hotel in downtown Johannesburg, from the viewing deck of the adjacent Carlton Centre. Taken in 1989 by Richard Newton.
1980s brochure for the Carlton Centre shopping mall in Johannesburg.
Extract from Taylor & Burton in Africa by Richard Newton.
Front cover of Taylor & Burton in Africa by Richard Newton.
Once Johannesburg's top hotel, the Carlton has been boarded up since 1997. In its glamorous 1970s prime, it hosts Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in the denouement of Taylor & Burton in Africa by @irnewton.bsky.social.
16.06.2025 13:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
You know what ISN'T an AI-generated book? This:
21.05.2025 06:40 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A lively exploration of life, love, marriage, cinema, celebrity, wildlife, class, race, and post-colonial Africa through the prism of the most famous couple in the world.
03.05.2025 10:25 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Actor Peter Sellers pretending to fall backwards into the gorge at Victoria Falls in what is now Zimbabwe.
Extract from the novel Taylor & Burton in Africa by Richard Newton.
In the mid-1970s, in the midst of a life crisis, Peter Sellers visited Victoria Falls. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton encounter him there in a pivotal chapter of Taylor & Burton in Africa by @irnewton.bsky.social
01.05.2025 13:04 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
New cover for the paperback of Taylor & Burton in Africa by @irnewton.bsky.social
25.04.2025 10:58 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
"In the crosshairs of the advancing cheetah, Richard subverts his adrenaline into a rough-and-ready intoxicant. He’ll take whatever stimulant he can get. This animal, up close, is that."
18.04.2025 13:22 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
James Earl Jones and Richard Burton in The Comedians (1967).
Extract from 'Taylor & Burton in Africa' by Richard Newton.
Two of cinema's greatest voices: James Earl Jones and Richard Burton. They shared the screen in The Comedians, and share a chapter of 'Taylor & Burton in Africa' by Richard Newton.
22.04.2025 08:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Author Graham Greene on location for the shooting of his novel The Comedians in Cotonou, Dahomey, in 1967.
The opening of Chapter 5: Greenery in the novel Taylor & Burton in Africa by Richard Newton.
Graham Greene joined Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton on location in Dahomey for the shooting of The Comedians, adapted from his novel, in 1967. He's central to a chapter in Taylor & Burton in Africa by Richard Newton.
20.04.2025 14:05 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Marlon Brando and Richard Burton drinking in Cotonou, Dahomey, in 1967.
Richard Burton playfully wrestling Marlon Brando in Cotonou, Dahomey, in 1967.
In 1967, Marlon Brando visited Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton on set in Dahomey. Burton wasn't happy. "Sure as dammit he bedded Elizabeth during 'Reflections in a Golden Eye'." It's the basis for a memorable chapter in the novel 'Taylor and Burton in Africa' by Richard Newton.
19.04.2025 07:44 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
"In the crosshairs of the advancing cheetah, Richard subverts his adrenaline into a rough-and-ready intoxicant. He’ll take whatever stimulant he can get. This animal, up close, is that."
18.04.2025 13:22 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0www.amazon.co.uk/Taylor-Burto...
18.04.2025 08:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The (mostly) true story of three milestones in the most famous relationship in the world - played out in Africa.
18.04.2025 08:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Out now. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Africa. A novel with an all-star cast. Part melodrama, part comedy.
17.04.2025 08:54 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
