Simon Garfield, Esq

Career: sub ed Radio Times 1981, scriptwriter radio documentaries BBC 1981-82, ed Time Out magazine 1988-89 (writer 1982-88); news feature writer: Independent and Independent on Sunday newspapers 1990-96, Observer 2001-; Guardian/NUS Student Journalist of the Year 1981, BSME Ed of the Year (Time Out) 1989, Mind Journalist of the Year 2005

Books and Publications: Expensive Habits: The Dark Side of the Music Industry (1986), The End of Innocence: Britain in the time of AIDS (1994, Somerset Maugham Prize 1995), The Wrestling (1996), The Nation's Favourite: The True Adventures of Radio 1 (1998), Mauve (2000), The Last Journey of William Huskisson (2002), Our Hidden Lives (2004), We Are At War (2005), Private Battles (2006), The Error World (2008), Mini (2009), Exposure: The Unusual Life and Violent Death of Bob Carlos Clarke (2009), Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (2010), On The Map (2012)