Books behind my Byline
BY TONY ROCCA
I was born near Manchester in the north of England, where I grew up and joined a local newspaper at the age of seventeen. I graduated to the Daily Mail in London where I spent ten years doing many editorial jobs, including a spell as New York correspondent. Then followed a further ten years in London with The Sunday Times as a reporter, feature-writer and foreign correspondent. My fifteen minutes of fame came with the demise of Now! magazine which suddenly become Then! (it folded on the very morning I joined). Next came a brief period as features editor of the Mail on Sunday and several years freelancing from the South of France before Mira and I left for Italy and our adventure in Tuscany. My articles have appeared in most British national newspapers as well as The New York Times and Reader's Digest.
This is my memoir, the result of trying to keep busy during the pandemic. After all, I was forever telling other people’s stories during my time as a journalist, so why not my own? It’s a tale of deadlines and grapevines and a life in two parts, each containing cuttings. I wrote it really for myself, but now that it’s in print I’ve been persuaded that others might find it interesting.
