AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

ROY BAINTON spent seven years in the Merchant Navy and has worked in journalism, radio and TV. He is the author of numerous books, including The Long Patrol: the British in Germany 1945-1989 (Mainstream, 2004), A Brief History of 1917: Russia’s Year of Revolution (Constable & Robinson, 2005), The Mammoth Book of Strange Phenomena (Constable & Robinson, 2013) and The Mammoth Book of Superstition (Constable & Robinson, 2016). He was born in Hull and now lives in Nottinghamshire.