Tim Richards is a freelance travel writer based in Melbourne, Australia. His writing has appeared in numerous newspapers, magazines and websites, and in Lonely Planet’s guidebooks. In 2014 his debut novel, Mind the Gap, a fast-paced fantasy thriller, was published as an ebook by HarperCollins. In 2017 he self-published The Kick of Stalin’s Cow, a travel memoir exploring post-communist Poland. In 2021 Fremantle Press published Heading South, a travel memoir in which Tim travels by train around Australia; and Hardie Grant published Ultimate Train Journeys: World, in which Tim describes the world’s best trains. You can see his published work at iwriter.com.au, and he regularly writes about travel at his Patreon site at patreon.com/timrichards.
