A memoir in prose and verse from a wandering Argentine soul with an incurable fondness for the United Kingdom.

Bastian St. Claire has spent a lifetime chasing three things he considers, in the end, to be one and the same: writing, travelling, and loving.

In this genre-bending collection of poems, personal essays, and true-to-life short stories, he takes the reader from the vineyards of his native Mendoza to a pupusería on the outskirts of San Salvador — with a fair few military checkpoints, family Christmases, and unrequited loves along the way.

Written with a generous dose of irony, self-deprecating humour, and unapologetic sentimentality, this is a book about the small, anonymous people who leave the deepest marks.

Equal parts travelogue, confession, and comic relief, Writing, Travelling and Loving asks a simple question in a hundred different ways: after everything — the cold, the borders, the grief, the absurdity of it all — isn't life still worth the trouble?