Books By Robert Elms - Author

For nearly 40 years Elms has been one of the most distinctive faces and voices in the British media. A journalist, author and presenter, his multi-award winning daily radio show on BBC London, covering all aspects of life in the metropolis, including his passion for great music, is the most listened to programme on British local radio. The start of the 1980s also saw the start of The Face, the pioneering style bible, where Elms instantly found a niche for his diatribes on the intricacies of young urban life. Becoming an editor of The Face in his early twenties, he also contributed regularly to international magazines as well as most of the prestigious British newspapers. He began broadcasting for the BBC, most notably as part of the team of Loose Ends on Radio 4 where he won his first Sony. In 1986 he combined two ambitions by going to live in Spain to write his debut novel. In Search Of The Crack was a Penguin original when he was just 27. He also began travel writing for the Sunday Times, who regularly pr