Gyles Brandreth is a writer, broadcaster, former MP and Government Whip, best known these days as a reporter on BBC1 s The One Show and a regular on Radio 4 s Just A Minute. On stage he has appeared as Malvolio, Lady Bracknell and in his own musical revue in London s West End. On TV he has featured in Have I Got News For You, QI, Ten O Clock Live, Countdown and This Is Your Life. His novels include six Victorian murder mysteries featuring Oscar Wilde as his detective and he has published two volumes of diaries and two royal biographies. He is married to writer and publisher Michele Brown and has three children, six grandchildren and two cats.
