Category:Simon Wilcox

Simon Wilcox started his career in the 1980s with a set of headphones and a manual typewriter in the cheerless basement of a Victorian terrace near London’s Chancery Lane. His job – when he wasn’t idly watching the feet of pedestrians walking by through a small window – was to pick up on the daily news for a broadcast monitoring service.

Gradually, though, he emerged into the light as a journalist in his own right, writing the news rather than tracking it, first as a writer on business magazines, then as a financial reporter for the main daily newspaper in Singapore. He went on to work for BBC local radio and for the editorial department of a London-based NGO. He now writes books in his study on the top floor of a semi-detached house in Warwickshire. It has a lovely view of the front garden.