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Diccon Bewes grew up in deepest Hampshire. A degree in International Relations from LSE and an 18-month world trip set him up for a career in travel writing, though he took the scenic route via bookselling. After ten years at Lonely Planet and Holiday Which? magazine, he decamped to Switzerland, where he is currently back on the shop floor as manager of the Stauffacher English Bookshop in Bern.
Swiss Watching is his second book. In 1997, he co-authored What Happened Where, an almanac of 20th-century events, with Chris Cook, published by UCL Press in the UK and St Martin's Press in the US.
Diccon made his TV debut on his birthday in Green Park toilets for the BBC, following up on his investigations into the state of public toilets in Britain. A travel writer's lot is not all glamour! He's now a regular contributor to the book slot on WRS, an English-language Swiss radio station. You can catch up with all the Speed Read segments here.
As well as grappling with German grammar, re-learning to cross the road properly, and overcoming his innate desire to form an orderly queue, he has spent the last few years exploring the bits of Switzerland he'd never heard of before. And eating lots of chocolate.