Expat Nationality

British

Expat for

25 years

I lived in Italy for

23 years

When friends/family visit I like to

The byzantine mosaics in the Basilica of Sant’Apollinare in Classe

What best describes you?

Bohemian

Favorite music/movies

Bach, Velvet Underground, Apocalypse Now

In my free time I like

Read

General about

I read history at Cambridge and taught Engish in Bari southern Italy before returning to Britian to become a journalist. I was on the staff of the Telegraph for a decade mostly as a news feature writer before going to Paris in 1997 to write a book on the death of Princess Diana (Editions Lafon) and then coming to Italy to write a biography of Mussolini (Weidenfeld & Nicolson/Orion) which was translated into six languages.

For about 15 years in Italy, I was a columnist for the national daily newspaper Libero and the regional daily newspaper La Voce di Romagna. I am married to an Italian and we have six children aged six to 18.