Alex Woolf

Alex Woolf was born in North London in 1964. During his teens, he played drums in a band, and in his 20s, he rode his motorbike, travelled in America and Europe and worked variously as an accountant, a warehouse assistant, a print buyer, a dishwasher in a roach-infested restaurant and a door-to-door salesman. Since 1991, he has been a book editor, and in 2001, he began to write. He has penned more than 40 books on a range of topics, from spiders to Nazis, and quite a few things in between. His longest book to date was a 300-page 'Short History of the World'. His debut novel, 'Chronosphere: Time Out of Time', the first part of a science fiction trilogy set in the future, is publishing in 2011.