RICHARD BENSON

Benson’s career began at the Beverley Guardian, in his native Yorkshire, in 1989. In the Nineties, he was editor of The Face, and in 2005 he published The Farm, a memoir of his family that was a Radio Four Book of the Week, shortlisted for The Guardian First Book Award, and a number one bestseller. The Valley, about British coal miners won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography. Benson is a contributing editor to Esquire and also writes for The Daily Telegraph and others. This issue, he writes about the secret life of the minibar.