Journalistic Samples
BBC News. At the moment Gabon, in West Africa, is reliant on oil for its income. But with supplies due to run out by 2020, the nation is keen to turn some of the virgin equatorial forest - full of elephants, chimps, gorillas, mandrills, hippos and leopards - into national parks for tourists ... Read here.
Read MoreEverything Spain: Flamenco star Joaquín Cortés is in the UK for the première of his show at the Royal Albert Hall. This is the bare-torso-ed superstar described by the BBC as “the sexiest Spanish icon since Banderas”, whose fleet footwork so fired up Italian film director Bertolucci ... Read here.
Read MoreDaily Mail: Lying on the deck of the Balearic Breezer, its white sails billowing as it cruises across the Bay of Pollensa, I feel glamorous. We sail into Formentor Bay, a golden strip of sand enclosed by pine-forested hillsides where the water is shades of cobalt and aquamarine. Trailing my hand in it, I see a champagne cork bobbing... Read here.
Sunday Times: Sarah Monaghan discovers the remote islands of Sao Tome and Principe (original behind paywall here). I am in a fairy-tale scene. The jungle has wreathed its way into the abandoned buildings as if they were Mayan temples. Read here.
Read MoreGabon Magazine: As dawn breaks on the province of Woleu-Ntem in north Gabon, the plantations begin to fill with activity as the tappers arrive. From first light until mid-morning ... Read here.
Read MoreGabon Magazine: With settings from Out of Africa to the Heart of Darkness, Loango National Park offers such a varied landscape that, as Sarah Monaghan discovers, each day’s safari is a new episode... Read here.
Read MoreEverything Spain: Taking on the renovation of a medieval masía in the heart of Catalonia has been an epic project for Times columnist and broadcaster Matthew Parris. The result is spectacular. He welcomes Sarah Monaghan to his castle... Read here.
Read MoreArticle for BBC Radio 4's From Our Own Correspondent: Recent events have seen Dubai reel from economic crisis. Sarah Monaghan revisits the city and discovers that this has had profound effects on the personality of the glitzy Gulf emirate. Standing on the outdoor observation deck of the Burj Khalifa, with its floor-to-ceiling glass walls, I am so high above the earth that it feels as if I am on the wing of an aeroplane ... Read here.
Read MoreGeographical Magazine: Sarah Monaghan reports from the Smithsonian Institute's base on the oilfields of Gabon. I saw my first elephant pretty well as soon as I touched down at Gamba Airport – on a runway that is a strip of red earth slicing through the forest. A handsome male, with the straight tannin-stained tusks typical of the African forest variety ... Read here
Read MoreThe Telegraph: Sarah Monaghan reports on the benefits of bilingual and trilingual language development in children. Professor Tony Cline of Luton University is an educational psychologist specialising in language development in children. He says we have revised our image of how the brain works. "We used to think it had a limited capacity, like a milk bottle, and that it ...
Read MoreGabon Magazine: Article about the West African timber trade. It's only from the air that you grasp the magnitude of Gabon’s tropical forests. When my plane takes off from Libreville International Airport, I can see below the Presidential Palace, a building ... Read here.
Read MoreThe Lady Magazine: Sarah Monaghan boards the narrow gauge Transcantábrico through Northern Spain. Voyeurism is half the pleasure of rail travel and on a train like this, what can you do but stare out the window and enjoy the metronomic beat of wheel over track and glimpses of lives caught in motion? Read here.
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