Icon Books have snapped up travel writer Daniel Stables’ first full length book.
Fiesta is a journey through human festivity, told through colourful travel narratives set at some of the world’s most eye-catching festivals and interweaved with insights from the fields of anthropology, history, psychology, and folklore, examining why we celebrate festivals in the ways we do.
The work will examine human culture and the natural world through rich, first-person travel narratives, infused with humour and embroidered with background and detail from the worlds of history, psychology, anthropology, and more.
Connor Stait, editor at Icon Books commented, ‘‘Daniel Stables is a terrific writer and the perfect guide for readers looking to learn more about festivals around the world. I’m excited to be publishing his debut book.’
Daniel Stables has been working as a travel writer for the last decade, first writing guidebooks for Rough Guides, and later writing articles for National Geographic, the BBC, and national newspapers. He has won acclaim and recognition for his work, having been shortlisted for Travel Writer of the Year at the Freelance Writing Awards in 2021, and for Travel Feature of the Year at 2023’s British Guild of Travel Writers awards.
“Daniel has the rare ability to seamlessly take fascinating anthropological and psychological perspectives and weave them into exciting travel narratives. A unique insight into the human condition through the lens of gatherings of all description – thought-provoking and inspiring.” Levison Wood
Cull & Co. Literary Agency Ltd 