I have worked as a journalist, author and book editor for more than thirty years. Below is a reasonably comprehensive resumé. Even though I live on a small unnamed Greek island, I am still open to offers!
1976-1980 freelance music journalist, Sounds magazine London.
1980-88 Staff journalist, Time Out magazine London; music editor (1980-85), literary and senior editor (1985-1988), duties included deputising for editor.
1988-1990. Freelance, working on books (novel, Hype!, published 1990) and travelling in Greece.
1990-1993, Staff journalist, Daily Mirror newspaper, sub-editor on entertainment section.
1993-1994 Staff journalist, Radio Times magazine, deputy on chief sub-editor’s desk.
1994-1995 Freelance, travelling in Greece (travelogue, The Stars Over Paxos, published 1995).
1995-1996 editor, DOX International Documentary Quarterly, EU-funded film magazine, based Copenhagen. Also, book, Queer Noises: Male and Female Homosexuality in Twentieth Century Music (Cassell, UK/University of Minnesota Press, USA) published.
1996-1997 Freelance, travelling in Greece, author of first edition of Rough Guide to Corfu and the Ionian Islands; also contributing to Rough Guide to Greece and Rough Guide to the Greek Islands. Freelance travel journalism for The Independent, Independent on Sunday, The Express.
Also book editing for Essential Books, Andre Deutsch, Aurum, Omnibus, Virgin (music, entertainment, pop culture, history).
1997-1999 Staff journalist, Daily Express newspaper. Also freelance travel journalism for Elle, Condé Nast Traveller, Sunday Express, others.
1999-present Freelance writer, editor, contributor to Condé Nast Traveller, The Independent, and others. Author of Essential Gaudí (2001), Thomas Cook Guide to Seville & Andalucia (2003).
Also editor and contributor to the Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Guide to Mallorca and the Balearics (three editions) and editor and contributor Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Guide to Seville and Andalucia (two editions). Editor and translator (Spanish-English) of online book (85,000 words) Fuente Hotels Guide to Andalucía, also editor of Dorling Kindersley Top 10 Guide to Mallorca (2007).
2008 Author, Andalucía: A Cultural History (Signal Books/Oxford University Press).
Future: Space Travel for Beginners (see sidebar), self-published with CreateSpace, Spring 2010; British Film Institute Modern Classics: Far from Heaven, book project currently in development for the BFI publications division, due 2010; Athens: A Cultural History, due from Signal Books late 2010/early 2011.