Christopher Booker, Esq

Surname: BOOKER
Style: Christopher Booker, Esq
Recreations: the psychology of storytelling, nature, music, playing village cricket, teasing global warmists

Career: author, journalist and broadcaster; Liberal News 1960, jazz critic Sunday Telegraph 1961, ed Private Eye 1961-63 (contrib 1965-); resident scriptwriter: That Was The Week That Was 1962-63, Not So Much A Programme 1963-64; contrib Daily Mail 1969-, columnist Sunday Telegraph 1990-; former contrib: Spectator, Daily Telegraph (Way of the World column as Peter Simple II 1987-90); wrote extensively on property devpt, planning and housing 1972-77, TV prog City of Towers: the Rise and Fall of a Twentieth Century Dream (1979); memb Cowgill Enquiry into post-war repatriations from Austria 1986-90

Books and Publications: The Neophiliacs: A Study of the Revolution in English Life in the 50's and 60's (1969), Goodbye London (with Candida Lycett-Green, 1973), The Booker Quiz (1976), The Seventies (1980), The Games War: A Moscow Journal (1981), Repatriations from Austria in 1945 (jtly, 1990), The Mad Officials (with Richard North, 1994), The Castle of Lies: Why Britain Must Get Out of Europe (1996), A Looking Glass Tragedy (1997), The Great Deception: A Secret History of the European Union (with Richard North, 2003), The Seven Basic Plots: Why Do We Tell Stories? (2004), The Great Deception: Can the European Union Survive? (2005), Scared to Death: From BSE to Global Warming, How Scares Are Costing Us The Earth (2007); contrib to Private Eye anthologies incl John Major Diaries and St Albion's Parish News