Picknick99 has been a journalist since the early 1980s and the author of four non-fiction books published between 1995 and 2001. He loves researching obscure information and is happiest in the British Library, the Newspaper Library (Colindale) and truffling for forgotten gems in the National Archives at Kew.
He lives in London. His interests are writing, travel, theatre and films - especially European and "World" cinema.
His specialist areas of knowledge are Railways and Confectionery.