Somewhat older now than this cheesy photo might suggest, Anthony is an award-winning freelance journalist, copywriter, editor and editorial consultant. Specializing in motoring, he has a further, burgeoning portfolio of design, travel, food, drink and general interest features.
Anthony has previously worked as Motoring Correspondent for Today newspaper and the Express on Sunday, as well as submitting columns, road tests and features as a long-standing Contributing Editor to BBC Top Gear magazine and, currently, Car magazine.
A member of the UK Car of the Year (UKCOTY) jury, he has also been a regular contributor to the Motoring sections of the Saturday Telegraph and Sunday Times newspapers, Car and Atlantic Golf and Lifestyle magazines, and Parkers website. He has also written a monthly motoring column for Fleet World magazine.
In addition, Anthony has edited Renault’s LCV customer magazine, Vanguard, and written features and drive stories for in-house customer magazines from Renault, Land Rover, Subaru, Chevrolet, Ford, Volvo, Vauxhall, Porsche, Toyota, Lexus, Alfa Romeo, Fiat, Mercedes Benz, Mazda, Citroen, Aston Martin and BMW.
He has also penned legion non-motoring features for a wide range of publications including the Daily Mail, Conde Nast Traveller, Maxim, Stuff, the AA magazine, Classic Cars, Blueprint, Tomorrow’s World, Autosport, Orange, Shell, ON digital, Country Life and, er, The Pipeman.
His copywriting credits include global and pan-European customer brochure, new car launch and motorshow press pack work for Toyota, Lexus, Mazda Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Renault and Citroen, event booklets for Mazda UK, fliers for Eagle Europe, numerous advertorials, and comprehensive guides to both Notting Hill and the Thames Walk for a property development company.
Originally a qualified architect, Anthony is not, by birth, a motoring anorak, writing, instead, for those who would more often prefer to hear about living with a car rather than what you’ll find under the bonnet. To that end, He’s also written numerous food and travel related pieces, including an amphibious car-based search for the Loch Ness monster, a layman’s guide to Burgundy, cookery lessons from Raymond Blanc, learning to dive, fly fishing with the House of Hardy, shooting with Holland and Holland, swimming with great white sharks, dozens of restaurant reviews, and features on toys, curry, cocktails and the death of the transport cafe.
He has dabbled in television; somewhat hopelessly in front of the camera for the BBC’s Top Gear GTi programme, and more successfully as Associate Editor of Channel 4’s Driven. He’s also made sporadic forays into Radio 5 Live including Motorshow reports, road tests and an appearance on the Diana Madill Show, for which he has still not been paid.
In 1995 Anthony was both the Specialist Motoring Writer of the Year, and the Overall Winner, of the Jet Media Excellence Awards, and in 1996 won the Press and Periodical Association Consumer Magazine Writer of the Year award, all of which undoubtedly went to his head.