Tobias Jones was born in Somerset in 1972. Having graduated from Jesus College, Oxford with a double first in English and History, he spent a year framing and selling antiquarian maps in a bookshop in Bloomsbury. He then joined the editorial team of the London Review of Books, before becoming a staff writer for the Independent on Sunday. In 1999 he emigrated to Italy, from where he has worked as a freelance journalist, writing essays and articles on Italy for Wallpaper, Prospect, Vogue, the Guardian, the LRB and the Independent on Sunday. He has since returned to the UK and his new book, Utopian Dreams, was published in 2007

Tobias Jones was born in Somerset in 1972. Having graduated from Jesus College, Oxford with a double first in English and History, he spent a year framing and selling antiquarian maps in a bookshop in Bloomsbury. He then joined the editorial team of the London Review of Books, before becoming a staff writer for the Independent on Sunday. In 1999 he emigrated to Italy, from where he has worked as a freelance journalist, writing essays and articles on Italy for Wallpaper, Prospect, Vogue, the Guardian, the LRB and the Independent on Sunday. He has since returned to the UK and his new book, Utopian Dreams, was published in 2007

Tobias Jones was born in Somerset in 1972. Having graduated from Jesus College, Oxford with a double first in English and History, he spent a year framing and selling antiquarian maps in a bookshop in Bloomsbury. He then joined the editorial team of the London Review of Books, before becoming a staff writer for the Independent on Sunday. In 1999 he emigrated to Italy, from where he has worked as a freelance journalist, writing essays and articles on Italy for Wallpaper, Prospect, Vogue, the Guardian, the LRB and the Independent on Sunday. He has since returned to the UK and his new book, Utopian Dreams, was published in 2007