In a few weeks time Brian Viner brings his new book to Southport.

Brian Viner was raised in Southport and attended King George V School. In 1980 he left, first to live in Paris for a year then to attend St Andrews University. After that he studied at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, before returning to England to seek his fortune in the media. He progressed through local papers until landing a job on the Mail on Sunday for five years. In 1999 he joined The Independent. He has conducted over 500 interviews with famous people and thus feels uniquely qualified to discuss what makes them tick.

He is a winner of the “What The Papers Say Award” for “excellence in journalism” and has for three years been writing a column about his new life in rural Herefordshire and how it differs from living in north London. This has inspired his first book, Tales of the Country. It was published on April 4 and has so far sold over 4,000 copies.

He is also a sports columnist for The Independent, and of course an occasional columnist for the Jewish Chronicle.

Brian will be presenting a talk and his new book @ Southport
Wednesday
6th July 2005