Jeremy Harding

Harding was born in London, England, where he was placed for adoption at 11 days old by his Irish mother.^[2] He grew up in West London.^[1] He tells the story of his adoption and the search for his biological mother in the book Mother Country: Memoir of an Adopted Boy (2006).^[3] He was later educated at Wellington College and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read English.^[4]

Harding is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books.^[5] He lives in France, an hour from Bordeaux, with his wife and three sons.^[5]

• Small Wars, Small Mercies: Journeys in Africa's Disputed Nations. London: Penguin, 1993. ISBN 9780140134339.
  • The Fate of Africa: Trial by Fire. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. ISBN 9780671723590.
• The Uninvited: Refugees at the Rich Man's Gate (2000).^[6][7]
• Mother Country: Memoir of an Adopted Boy (2006).^[8][9]
• Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World (2012).^[10]
• Analogue Africa: Notes on the Anti-Colonial Imagination. London: Verso Books, 2026. ISBN 9781804295960.^[11]

• Arthur Rimbaud: Selected Poems and Letters. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2004. ISBN 978-0140448023. Translated by Harding and John Sturrock.