Adam Sisman writes and reviews books for newspapers and magazines in Britain, Ireland and America.  He worked as a book publisher for almost fifteen years before taking up writing.  His most recent book, Boswell's Presumptuous Task, was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Biography Award as well as several other prizes, and won the prestigious American National Books Critics Circle Award in 2002.  His earlier book, AJP Taylor: A Biography, was also highly acclaimed and was shortlisted for a number of literary prizes.  Adam lives near Bath, with his wife, the novelist Robyn Sisman, and their two children.  He is currently working on a new book about the friendship between Wordsworth and Coleridge. 

Favourite books: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens,  Favourite authors include Jane Austen, Waugh, Orwell, Kingsley Amis, Boswell, AJP Taylor and "any number of others including Herge and Richmal Crompton".