Simon Frank Garfield (born 19 March 1960) is a British journalist and non-fiction author. He was educated at the independent University College School in Hampstead, London, and the London School of Economics, where he was the Executive Editor of The Beaver. He also regularly writes for The Observer newspaper.
Books in order of publication:
Expensive habits: the dark side of the music industry. London: Faber. – 1986
Money for Nothing: Greed and Exploitation in the Music Industry (1986)
The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS (1994)
The Wrestling (1996)
The Nation’s Favourite: The True Adventures of Radio One (1998)
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World (2000)
The Last Journey of William Huskisson (2002)
Our Hidden Lives: The Everyday Diaries of a Forgotten Britain (2004)
We are at War: The Remarkable Diaries of Five Ordinary People (2005)
Private Battles: Our Intimate Diaries – How the War Almost Defeated Us (2006)
The Error World: An Affair With Stamps (2008)
Exposure: The Unusual Life and Violent Death of Bob Carlos Clarke (2009)
Mini: The True and Secret History of the Making of a Motor Car (2009)
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Profile Books Ltd. , 2010)
On the Map: Why the World Looks the Way it Does (Profile Books Ltd, 2012)
To the Letter: A Curious History of Correspondence – A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing (Canongate, 2013)
Timekeepers: How The World Became Obsessed With Time (Canongate, 2016)
In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate The World (Canongate, 2018)
Dog’s Best Friend: A Brief History of an Unbreakable Bond (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2020)
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia (Orion Publishing, 2022)
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