View" told the story of 50 grand hotels around the world. "Rooms of One's Own " was Highly Commended in the 2018 British Guild of Travel Writers Awards in the Best Narrative Travel Book category. In January 2019 Mourby was Writer in Residence on Ocean Drive, Miami a post sponsored by The Betsy Hotel. In the Summer of 2019 he was guest lecturer on a number of opera tours of Italy with even more tours lined up in 2020. As a writer on opera and travel- two things that abruptly ceased in 2020- Mourby saw a career that had become too busy suddenly implode during the Covid lockdowns. He continued to write about Greece- and even managed to visit twice during 2020- but he returned to writing fiction in the quiet months of that lost year and wrote the novel Flora Antiparos. References External links Author's website 20th-century British novelists 21st-century British novelists Alumni of the University of Wales, Lampeter Living people British male novelists 20th-century British male writers 21st-century British male writers 1955 births