Biography
With one parent originating in the
Hebrides and the
other 
from
the Channel Islands, Eames was always
going to
be a
traveller.
He read English at the University of Cambridge and then set
off for the Far East, where he spent two years first as a
teacher of English, and then as
a freelance contributor to the Straits Times and Bangkok Post.
Back in the UK, he worked first on business
publications
before becoming a sub-editor on The
Times, finding time to write his first book,
Crossing
the Shadow Line. He then spent some years as one
of
the founding
editors of Apa Insight Guides.
Since then he has written
three more books (Four
Scottish, The 8.55 to Baghdad and Something Different For The
Weekend),
produced scripts for television and become one
of the country's most prolific
contributors to the travel pages of newspapers and magazines.
His latest book Blue River,
Black Sea was published by Bantam Press in March 2009, and in paperback in February 2010
Privileged to be able to earn a living from doing what
he
enjoys most, he and his family live under the
flightpath of the
world's busiest airport.