About the author

Born in Central America in 1970, Matthew Parker spent part of his childhood in the West Indies, acquiring a life-long fascination with the history of the region. Since graduating from Oxford, he has worked as an editorial adviser, a commissioning editor, a consultant on history television projects and has written two bestselling narrative histories. He has appeared on television documentaries and featured on a number of radio programmes, including the Diane Rehm Show in the United States. Matthew has written for a number of newspapers and magazines and lectured at the Royal Geographical Society in London, the Explorers’ Club in New York, Northwestern University in Chicago and the Treasury Executive Institute and the Society of the Americas in Washington DC. His previous book was Monte Cassino. He is currently at work on a new history of the rise and fall of the West Indian sugar empire, for publication in the US and UK and Europe in early 2011.

He currently lives in east London with his family and annoying dog.

Contact me here or by writing to my publishers or agent:
Hutchinson,
Random House,
20 Vauxhall Bridge Road,
London SW1V 2SA
www.randomhouse.co.uk

Lucas Alexander Whitely,
14 Vernon Street,
London W14 0RJ

Author FAQs (link to Waterstones)

Interview on donowdo.com

Guardian article 28 February: 'Changing course'
'The expansion of Panama's canal without a thorough impact assessment has led to fears of species migration and water shortages '

Sunday Telegraph, 6 May 2007
Panama City 'My Kind of Town'