Jon Stock is currently Weekend editor of the Telegraph. He is the author of two novels, ‘The Riot Act’ and the ‘Cardamom Club’, and is also a columnist with The Week magazine in India. He lives in Wiltshire with his wife and three young children.
After reading English at Cambridge University, he worked as a freelance journalist in London, writing features for most of Britain’s national newspapers, as well as contributing regularly to BBC Radio 4. He was also chosen for Carlton TV’s acclaimed scriptwriters course. Between 1998 and 2000, he was Delhi correspondent for the Daily Telegraph. On his return to Britain, he worked on various Saturday sections of the paper before taking up a staff job as editor of Weekend in 2005. He has been writing the Last Word column in The Week since he lived in Cochin, South India in 1995.
‘The Riot Act’, published by Serpent’s Tail, was launched on the 50th floor of Canary Wharf tower. The book was shortlisted by the Crime Writers’ Association for its best first novel award and was subsequently published by Gallimard in France as part of its acclaimed Serie Noir. The ‘Cardamom Club’ was published by Blackamber (now Arcadia Books) in Britain and by Penguin in India. Both were spy novels.
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