Nick Hunt has written a trilogy of books about walking in Europe - Outlandish, Where the Wild Winds Are and Walking the Woods and the Water - two of which were shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. His articles have appeared in the Guardian, Emergence, Resurgence & Ecologist, New Internationalist, Geographical and numerous other publications, and he works as co-director for the Dark Mountain Project. Red Smoking Mirror is his first novel.