Giles Coren
Giles Coren is a writer, critic, columnist and television presenter. For the last nine years he has been the Times’ restaurant critic and has written a weekly opinion column for them for even longer than that. In 2005, he was named ‘Food and Drink Writer of the Year’ at the British Press Awards. In the same year, his first novel, ‘Winkler’, won the Literary Review’s Bad Sex Award. His 1997 ‘autobiography’ of James Dyson, ‘Against The Odds’, did not. But it was a bestseller In Britain, America and Japan.
He co-presented the first series of ‘The F-Word’ with Gordon Ramsay in 2005, hosted Five’s ‘Movie Lounge’ in 2006, and in the same year wrote and presented ‘Tax The Fat’, a controversial documentary for More4 which made him no friends in the fat community.
In 2007 he co-presented, with Olivia Judson, Channel 4’s three part documentary series about bio-technology in the food chain, ‘Animal Farm’, and in 2008, with Sue Perkins, presented the six-part historical food series, ‘The Supersizers Go…’ followed by a second series in 2009.
His new series with Sue Perkins, ‘Giles and Sue Live The Good Life’, aired on BBC2 to ravew reviews in November 2010, and his new book, ‘Anger Management for Beginners’, has recently been published in paperback by Hodder.