Nicholas Martin

Nicholas Martin has worked as a croupier, a labourer, a bouncer and a barman. In his early twenties he worked at sea as a deck hand and later as a yacht captain. He then worked as a journalist and travel writer, contributing to The Sunday Times , the Guardian and various magazines, before becoming a screenwriter, graduating from the National Film and Television School in 1992. He lives in London. Jasper Rees has been a journalist since 1988. He has written over the years for most broadsheets,...See more

Nicholas Martin has worked as a croupier, a labourer, a bouncer and a barman. In his early twenties he worked at sea as a deck hand and later as a yacht captain. He then worked as a journalist and travel writer, contributing to The Sunday Times , the Guardian and various magazines, before becoming a screenwriter, graduating from the National Film and Television School in 1992. He lives in London. Jasper Rees has been a journalist since 1988. He has written over the years for most broadsheets, but principally the Daily Telegraph , Independent , Evening Standard and The Times Saturday Magazine . He has also written for Vogue , Harper's , Radio Times and GQ . He is the author of the books, Bred of Heaven: One Man's Quest to Reclaim his Welsh Roots and I Found My Horn: One Man's Struggle with the Orchestra's Most Difficult Instrument. He lives in London. See less