Tony Benn

Jad Adams has worked as a television producer and a Fleet Street newspaper journalist. He knew Tony Benn well for the last twenty-five years of his life. He was the last researcher to have full access to the extensive Benn Archive in Benn's basement office, prior to its being given to the British Library.

Jad's political books include

Women and the Vote: A World History,

Gandhi: Naked Ambition and

The Dynasty: The Nehru–Gandhi Story. His television work has included biographies of Bill and Hillary Clinton, the Nehru dynasty and Lord Kitchener. He has also specialised in work on the 'decadent' era of the nineteenth century, including

Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives;

Madder Music,

Stronger Wine: The Life of Ernest Dowson; and

Hideous Absinthe: A History of the Devil in a Bottle. Jad has written two novels:

Cafe Europa and

Choice of Darkness.

He lives in London and on the Greek island of Leros. His website is www.jadadams.co.uk