Louis Barfe
Louis Barfe is a writer and broadcaster and the author of The Trials and Triumphs of Les Dawson.
About Louis Barfe
Louis Barfe is a writer and broadcaster, specialising in relatively serious coverage of apparently frivolous matters.
His first book Where Have All The Good Times Gone? The rise and fall of the record industry was published in 2004, and followed in 2008 by Turned Out Nice Again: the story of British light entertainment.
Before the descent into authordom, he was a hack on Publishing News (getting drunk and annoying Iain Dale at the same book launches as Jerry Hayes), and was also one of Private Eye's various Bookworms for the best part of a decade. He has also written for The Oldie, New Statesman and the Sunday Telegraph.
A native of Surrey, he has spent the last 9 years in Lowestoft, near the easternmost point of the British Isles, where he pleases himself, irritates his family and occasionally meddles in local politics.
He is also the curator of the second-finest privately-owned collection of Billy Cotton Band Shows, addicted to Challenge TV's repeats of 3-2-1 and an inveterate poster of obscenities on Twitter while watching Question Time.
His third book, The Trials and Triumphs of Les Dawson, is scheduled for publication in February 2012.