Jeremy Lewis worked for many years in publishing after leaving Trinity College, Dublin, in 1965. He was a director of Chatto & Windus for ten years, and the deputy editor of the "London Magazine" from 1990 to 1994. A freelance writer and editor since 1989, he has been the commissioning editor of the "Oldie" since 1997, and the editor-at-large of the "Literary Review" since 2004. He has written two volumes of autobiography - Playing for Time and Kindred Spirits (both now available in Faber Finds'), and a third, Grub Street Irregular was published in 2008. He has written biographies of Cyril Con...