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Tales from Palm Island, Australia

A former Aboriginal penal colony, Palm Island has been called ‘the most dangerous place in the world outside a combat zone’.

Tales from Dadaab, Kenya

In the remote deserts that border Somalia lies the world’s largest refugee camp, home to more than 300,000 people.

Tales from Guatemala City, Guatemala

The hinterland of this Central American capital is so dangerous that it is known, amongst its young residents, as ‘Mousetrap City’.

Will Storr is a novelist and an award winning longform journalist. His features appear regularly in many magazines and broadsheet newspaper supplements such as The Guardian Weekend, The Telegraph Magazine, and The Observer Magazine. He is a contributing editor at Esquire magazine. His radio documentaries have been broadcast on BBC World.

He has reported from the refugee camps of Africa, the war-torn departments of rural Colombia and the remote Aboriginal communities of Australia.

He has been named New Journalist of the Year and Feature Writer of the Year, and has won a National Press Club award for excellence. In 2010, his investigation into the kangaroo meat industry won the Australian Food Media award for Best Investigative Journalism and, in 2012, he was presented with the One World Press award and the Amnesty International award for his work for The Observer on sexual violence against men.

He is also a widely published photographer.

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