Author of five books on the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Oman and Qatar, including the bestselling Berlitz Pocket Guide Dubai.

Co-author of one of the first guidebooks on the UAE (Insight Guides, 1998).

Author of one of the first guidebooks on Dubai (Insight Pocket Guide, 2000).

Finalist in The Daily Telegraph / Cathay Pacific Airways Young Travel Writer Of The Year Competition.

Alumnus of Curtis Brown Creative’s Six-Month Novel-Writing Course and Mentoring Programme.

Ex-Thomson Regional Newspapers (TRN) and Trinity Mirror staffer; freelancer for The Daily Yomiuri (Japan), The Japan Times, South China Morning Post, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, Khaleej Times (UAE), Gulf News (UAE) and Motivate Publishing (Dubai – various titles).