Stig Abell

Stephen “Stig” Paul Abell is an English journalist, newspaper editor and radio presenter. He currently co-presents the Monday to Thursday breakfast show on Times Radio with Aasmah Mir.

Abell was from 2016 to 2020 editor of The Times Literary Supplement and from 2013 to 2016 managing editor of The Sun. He was formerly a fiction reviewer at The Spectator and reviewer at Telegraph Media Group as well as The Times Literary Supplement. He was also a presenter on LBC Radio.

Abell educated at Loughborough Grammar School and went on to graduate with a double first in English from Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Books in order of publication:

How Britain Really Works – 2018

Things I Learned on the 6:28 – 2021

Death Under a Little Sky (Jake Jackson # 1) – 2023

Death in a Lonely Place (Jake Jackson # 2) – 2024