Hg2's Authors

From her Brighton base, Beverley is a freelance travel journalist and editor who writes regularly for the Observer, Daily Express, Times, Evening Standard, Travel Weekly and other publications. In 12 years of specialising in travel, she has seen a fair slice of the world and rates Madrid as one of her favourite cities.

After graduating with a glamorous but essentially useless honours degree in Italian and Art History, Catherine narrowly escaped working in the Maritime Painting department at Christies. Fortunately she escaped to the V&A where she discovered art doesn't pay and started to forge her career in writing, contributing to various art and lifestyle websites, magazines and travel guides in the US and UK. She has since realised that writing doesn't pay either.

Catherine is a fluent Italian speaker and works as a freelance tutor for Art History Abroad gallavanting around Italy teaching teenagers about art. Since writing Hg2 Rome she is now teaching art history at a salubrious school in the country, before she tackles her next adventure. She has spent many extended periods in Italy, especially in Rome, where she lived in Testaccio, her favourite place in the world.

A freelance journalist/Photographer, Charles has worked in Argentina for Reuters and CNN International, as well as Sports Illustrated, his work has also been published in: Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph, The Week Magazine, Polo Times, Country Life, Horse and Hound, Shooting Times, New York Times, The Washington Post and The Guardian (London) . Having  produced an extreme sports documentary in Los Angeles, he is currently researching the first ever edition of Hg2 Buenos Aires.

Fleur is a features journalist based in London, specialising in lifestyle, fashion, culture and the arts. Having graduated from Edinburgh University she was serendipitously placed as an intern at British Vogue, which forged an unplanned speciality in fashion. She then went on to work as a stylist and scriptwriter for BBC¹s 'Looking Good¹ and Channel 4¹s 'She¹s Gotta Have It¹. Moving to the Sunday Telegraph Magazine as the staff fashion and beauty writer, Fleur had a weekly fashion page and an opportunity to write fashion features on trends, fashion designers and photographers. In June 2004 she left to go freelance, writing pieces for the International Herald Tribune and glossies, including Vogue China, where she became Deputy Beauty Editor.Since researching and writing 'A Hedonist's Guide to Milan', and more recently editing "A Hedonist's guide to London', she has settled into another desk job ­ this time at the Sunday Times Style Magazine as Commissioning Editor. Although her wanderlust lingers on.

For as long as she can remember, Harriet has wanted to photograph the world. Following a degree in Languages for Business, Harriet worked with a string of internationally recognised photographers, including Sarah Maingot, Barry J Holmes, Simon Upton and Fritz von der Schulenberg before she freelanced for Condé Nast’s acclaimed ‘Traveller’ magazine. After working at a desk job as a magazine picture editor, the desire to be behind the lens again proved too strong. She started accepting commissions once more and was appointed official photographer for the Order of Malta. In 2005, she visited Panama and Columbia for commissions in The Evening Standard and Tatler Travel Guide at present Harriet is busily expanding her photo-journalistic skills having just completed her commission in Moscow for The Hedonist Guide to....

Laurence is a writer, comedian and freelance business consultant. His life-coaching parody "Gus no Fuss" made waves at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2004, while his short play The Suit's Lament was performed at the Old Vic Theatre in 2002. After experience as a sometime writer for RISE TV, Laurence cut his teeth in the USA at the LA Comedy Store, Second City and Unurban City and Stand Up New York (2004). Laurence is currently writing a book about famous optimists.

Nick Hackworth is a London based writer. After studying Modern History at Oxford University he began writing about art. He is Contemporary Art Critic of the Evening Standard, Art Editor of Quintessentially and Dazed & Confused Magazines and is currently writing a book on the Chapman Brothers for the Tate. As a traveller he formed an attachment with the Middle East at an early age, travelling around Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan as a student. He has since returned to the region many times and is not quite sure why he ever comes back. He held his first solo photographic show, of images from Afghanistan, at Space Gallery, Pimlico in 2005. More recently he has opened his own art gallery Paradise Row in Bethnal Green.

Paul is a writer/photographer who primarily centres on music, travel and culture. His words and pictures have appeared in a range of respected print and internet publications around the world, including The Independent, The Observer, The Face, Sleazenation, Dazed and Confused, Jockey Slut, BBC, XLR8R, DJ, Global Rhythm, iDJ, Wax Poetics, The Wire, Pulp and Amazon. He is the author of two books: “Waking Up In Iceland’ (Sanctuary, 2002) and Sullivan’s Music Trivia (Sanctuary 2003) and recently held an exhibition of his travel photography in Sydney. He also runs the independent record label Schizophonic. Paul has just completed work on the 2nd Edition of Hg2 Marrakech and will be heading to Prague to research a 2nd Edition there.

Ramsay Short is a writer and journalist based in Beirut where he is the Lebanon correspondent for The Daily Telegraph and features editor of the The Daily Star published in the Middle East. A graduate of both Edinburgh University and the London School of Economics, he has been living in Lebanon for over three years and is constantly travelling in the region. A specialist in Middle East (and Lebanese) politics and Arab art, music and culture Ramsay has contributed numerous articles on the region to publications as varied as The Financial Times magazine, The International Herald Tribune, Bidoun, British Airways Impressions and a plethora of Arab magazines. In his spare time heplays his own brand of broken beat funk music as a DJ in clubs acrossthe Middle East and hosts a regular radio show. Ramsay has recently become the editor of the Time Out magazine in Beirut. He recently married and is expecting his first child.

Sarah is a freelance travel and music journalist based in south London. During the past five years she has worked for a variety of national titles, including DJ, Jockey Slut, iDJ, Undercover and Metro Life. She has edited a children's title and has enjoyed full time stints at Top of the Pops and Mixmag, where she mastered the art of hedonism. Despite her reluctance to travel north of the river, Sarah will frequently take flight at the drop of a hat and has worked on projects throughout Europe. She has recently turned her hand to writing and has recently ghost-written autobiographies for Peter Andre and Lindsay Lohan.

Brought up in Hong Kong Scarlett has since lived and worked in India, China, Sweden and the UK. After studying Anthropology at university she joined a headhunting firm in the City. A year later she escaped back to India and soon after was commissioned to write A Hedonist’s guide to Stockholm. Her latest stint running a tented camp in Ranthambore National Park, Rajasthan, has only confirmed that her work and travel always need to be linked. With most of Asia, Africa and Europe well covered, South America and Russia are next on the list. She is in training for her Private Pilot’s Licence to help her get there.

Founder and managing director of Hg2. Tremayne wrote the first book to Prague and is responsible for creating the concept and brand. His love of travel, gourmet food and an inexhaustible approach to nightlife made him the ideal person to tackle this subject. Tremayne, much to his disappointment, no longer gets to write the guides and now spends his time looking after the day-to-day details of Hg2.