Conville & Walsh

Ben Donald lives with his wife and child in West London and is in charge of television and book rights at BBC Worldwide. His earlier life is more relevant, however, for he moved to Germany at the age of three. Ben went on to study German and German literature, among other languages, at school and university in England, and claims that it was at Cambridge that his youthful idealism found a mirror in the writings of the great German thinkers. Fluent in German, French and Italian, he also succumbed during his student days to an irrepressible wanderlust which, in turn, led him to write occasional travel pieces for The Times as well as three guidebooks (BOLOGNA, Footprint, 2002; TURIN, Footprint, 2004; MILAN, Cadogan) and also to co-author with Phil Dodd THE BOOK OF CITIES (Pavilion, 2004).