Julian Mash is a graduate of the University of East Anglia’s MA programme. He lived and worked in Notting Hill for over a decade, half of which was spent working at the Travel Bookshop, a local institution and the inspiration for the bookshop in the film Notting Hill. He is the author of Portobello Road: Lives of a Neighbourhood and was the recipient of the RSL ­Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction. His writing has appeared in the Telegraph, Evening Standard and Q magazine amongst others. He is the literary programmer for End of the Road Festival and works for the publisher Unbound. He lives in London with his partner and their two children.