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Travel Writing   Writer, Editor and Public Relations Consultant   Tours   Books   Blog  - Travel Articles Photos   Links  - Tours Direct  - NZ Herald  - Timaru Herald  - Save The Children NZ My Guest Book My Contact Details	Jill Worrall is an award-winning writer who lives in the South Island of New Zealand. During more than 20 years as a newspaper journalist she won two Qantas Media Awards (New Zealand’s most prestigious print media awards) for feature writing, was twice named NZ Newspaper Travel Writer of the Year and finally NZ Travel Writer of the Year. She has been a finalist in a multitude of other writing awards, including the Commonwealth Press Awards. Her first travel book, A Blonde in the Bazaar, was runner-up best travel book published in New Zealand in 2005 and has all but sold out. She now works as a freelance writer, international tour guide, editor and publicist and is in demand as a public speaker and for her travel writing workshops. Jill's travel writing currently appears on the New Zealand Herald's on-line travel pages (look for her column Escapism with Jill Worrall) and in the Timaru Herald (her fortnightly travel articles can be found on www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/features/. Jill divides her time between her home in Timaru, New Zealand, which she shares with Derek her husband and two cats, and overseas travel. She has two adult children, Rachel and Jono, who also share their mother’s love of travel. Some of her best travel memories are of cruising a French river with Derek, Rachel and Jono; exploring a Moroccan souk with Rachel and watching whirling dervishes in Istanbul with Jono. When overseas, Jill loves camel riding, tea houses and dancing (she’s recently added Tibetan disco dancing to her repertoire). She has a weakness for eggplant, saffron ice cream, Russian vodka toasts and Persian poetry. When she’s at home she misses hearing the call to prayer, bazaars and marriage proposals while out shopping. The only food she misses when travelling is dark chocolate. She is an enthusiastic supporter of Save the Children New Zealand, along with New Zealand associations aimed at strengthening relationships between NZ and both Pakistan and Iran.

	Two Wings of a Nightingale
	Finally, after what seems like an age, my second travel book Two Wings of a Nightingale is ready to go on sale! Two Wings tells the story of my 8000km road trip through Iran with my Iranian friend Reza Mirkhalaf. During May and June I am due to be interviewed on radio and television and there are also promises of reviews in several newspapers and magazines so look out and listen for these (there are details on some of these on my books page). Two Wings will be, as they say, available in all good bookstores from May 2, but I also hope to have signed copies for sale direct from me so if you are interested in buying one of these please email me for more information (jill.worrall@xtra.co.nz). It's very exciting to see the book finished and looking beautiful - my publishers Exisle have made a beautiful job of it I think - but it's always a bit nerve-wracking to have one's "baby" out there and under scrutiny! So if you do buy a copy and enjoy it please let me know (and spread the word too!) See Books for more details on the book.
Feedback on the book It's a delightful and insightful of the people and places in a fascinating part of the world - Jim Eagles, New Zealand Herald 7.6.11 Compelled to email you to join the praises for this book....I couldn't put it down". MP, Tauranga This is a book to linger over. Timaru Herald review 7/5/11 Have just finished your book and I loved it. I read it slowly so that I could savour every minute. I also cried at the end - a lovely emotional moment. AR Your new book has given us so much pleasure. Thank you! JM Your writing skill comes across so well -- combining flowing human story with factual information in unity, Excellent. You have many human-interaction thoughts which collectively become so telling. Greatly enjoyed. And I was very pleased at the colour photos ---- delightful for a book at this price.I think Exisle achieved a balance of quality for cost. But of course the great thing is that it gives a missing picture -- since the days of Byron and Sackville-west. Hoorah! PS. You’re in BIG trouble – not only has your book triggered off huge envy it has also triggered off my travel passion as well (& being broke, that’s not a good thing!) Congratulations on an amazing story with your brilliance in telling it. EM

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