Simon Edge ‘Meet the Author’

A local author, Simon Edge says of the novel “much of which was written in Sudbury, and which has an East Anglian connection because one strand focuses on a shipwreck off the coast of Harwich.”

“The Hopkins Conundrum is wonderfully enjoyable: a masterful mash-up of contemporary literary satire and poetic erudition which had me laughing out loud and then reaching for the collected works of a now neglected Victorian poet. Prepare to be delighted”

Liz Trenow

Author information
Simon read philosophy at Cambridge University and worked as an English teacher in the Gaza Strip and a specialist journalist on the Middle East before becoming editor of the pioneering London paper Capital Gay and then entering Fleet Street.

A gossip columnist on the Evening Standard, he joined the staff of the Daily Express under editor Rosie Boycott and ended up staying 15 years, working variously as a feature writer, obituaries editor and theatre critic. He has also written for The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, the Daily Telegraph, Private Eye, the New Statesman and Attitude, where he is a contributing editor. He has been a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 5 Live. Since leaving journalism he has worked as a political spin doctor and a publicist.

Simon was on the inaugural intake of City University’s MA in Creative Writing and subsequently taught on that course as a visiting lecturer, well before being published as a novelist himself.

He lives in Greenwich with a kleptomaniac whippet called Pippin.

Read more about Simon and his work at www.simon-edge.com