Newspapers

My background is in Fleet Street, and I have worked for the Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Express and Independent. As a production journalist, I have been called in to work in supplements and special projects.

Magazines

I have worked on, and written for a diverse number of magazines, from Minerva and Wallpaper to The Sunday Times Magazine and Newsweek.

Publishing
I publish my own books, and sometimes other people's, at Bristol Book Publishing, based on the Hotel Bristol Project.

Web

I contribute to Dorling Kinderley's web pages, and am currently on-line editor of Cornucopia, an upmarket magazine for 'Conoisseurs of Turkey'. 

Books

FICTION (all now available as eBooks)

A-Train (W.H. Allen, 1985)

Father Thames (Bristol Book Publishing, 2008).

Burning Barcelona (Bristol Book Publishing, 2008).

High Times at the Hotel Bristol (Bristol Book Publishing, 2007)

Lunch with Elizabeth David (Little, Brown, 1999, Abacus pbk 2000, 2001)

Aftermath (W.H. Allen, 1982)

TRAVEL BOOKS

Author, contributor and editor of many titles for Insight Guides, Dorling Kindersley (Barcelona, Berlitz,  Thomas Cook, and National Geographic. Author of The Most Amazing Place to Visit in London (Reader's Digest, 2012),

OTHER NON-FICTION
The Fisherman of Halicarnassus (Bristol Book Publishing, Bilgi Yayinevi, 2013)

Travel Photography (contributor, Insight Guides, 2010)
The Royal Albert Hall, a Masterpiece for the 21st Century (Fitzgarding Press, 2003)
A–Z Travel Snapshots (ebook only, Bristol Book Publishing)
Time Traveller, a history of newspaper and periodical publishing (for WH Smith, 1998)

PAID UP
I am a member of the National Union of Journalists and the Society of Authors, and have registered with the Information Commissioner's Office under the Data Protection Act.