About the Author

Philip Eade was born in Shropshire and educated at Marlborough College and Bristol University, where he read History. He has worked as an English teacher, guidebook writer, criminal barrister and financial journalist, and for several years he was on the obituaries desk of the Daily Telegraph. He lives in London and the Welsh marches. Sylvia Queen of the Headhunters, his first book, was runner-up for the Biographers' Club Prize.