Simon Winder is the author of the highly praised The Man Who Saved Britain and the Sunday Times top ten bestseller, Germania. He works in publishing and lives in Wandsworth Town.
An engrossing, informative and hilarious read * The Sunday Times * Magnificently crazy -- Will Self * Esquire * The high plateau of my year was my catching up with Simon Winder. Danubia and Germania are an idiosyncratic, often funny fusion of history writing, travel writing and disrespect. -- Sir Tom Stoppard * TLS * Travelogue and historical narrative are merged in a gloriously free-wheeling narrative of the entire sweep of German history. * The Telegraph *