Richard Littlejohn is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster, andauthor of three best-selling books. His twice-weekly columns in the Daily Mail and the Sun earned him a place in the inaugural Newspaper Hall of Fame as one of the most influential journalists of the past 40 years. He has been Fleet Street's Columnist of the Year and was named Irritant of the Year by the BBC's What The Papers Say awards for his unrivalled ability to get up the noses of the Establishment. He has written for London's Evening Standard, Punch and the Spectator

His extensive radio and television work has brought him both a Sony award and a Silver Rose of Montreux.

Richard’s latest bestseller, Littlejohn’s Britain, released in May 2007, went straight into the charts at Number One. Hissatirical novel To Hell In A Handcart was thefastest-selling fiction paperback on its release in 2001. His highly acclaimed You Couldn't Make It Up skewered John Major's Conservative government - much the same as Littlejohn's Britain does for the Blair years.