John O'Connell worked for several years at the London listings magazine Time Out. He now writes, mostly about books, for The Times, The Guardian, New Statesman and The National. He is the author of I Told You I Was Ill: Adventures in Hypochondria (Short Books, 2005), The Midlife Manual (2010) and The Baskerville Legacy (2011). He is 37 and lives with his family in south London.
