Philip Collins is the author of five previous books, two novels (The Men From The Boys and Bobby Dazzler) and three works of non-fiction, The Art of Speeches and Presentations, When They Go Low, We Go High and Start Again. He is a Contributing Editor at the New Statesman and a Columnist for the Evening Standard having been, for thirteen years, a writer on The Times. Mr Collins is a former Chief Speechwriter for the Prime Minister Tony Blair. He is also the founder and Writer-in-Chief of a writing company, The Draft Writers.