Chris Cairns

Chris Cairns was born in 1961. A journalist for more than 20 years, he has worked on local, regional and national newspapers across the UK. He is the author of No Tie Required, a humorous social history of golf which was shortlisted for British Sports Book of the Year in 2006.

Chris lives in Edinburgh and works as a freelance writer and cartoonist. Trade Secret is his first novel. (Actually, it's his second novel, but we won't talk about the first one).