Chris Newton

Chris Newton worked as a newspaper and radio reporter in his youth before embarking on a career in media relations, becoming a director of a leading PR consultancy. His lifelong passion for the written word soon led to a specialisation in writing and editing books. Chris’ biography of a celebrated angling writer and wildlife broadcaster, Hugh Falkus – A Life On The Edge (Medlar Press 2007) was widely acclaimed by the national press and described by one reviewer as having ‘a good claim to be the finest biography of an angler anyone has ever written’. Since 2009 he has been Editor in Chief at Mereo Books (formerly Memoirs), where he has edited or ghost written everything from literary novels, autobiographies and short stories to recipe books and how-to-do-it guides.