Richard Newsome (BEcon Hons 1991) has worked as a journalist for daily newspapers, radio and TV, as a consultant with one of the world's foremost strategy consultancies in Boston, and as the communications director of a multinational media company.

Which is why he is now writing books for children.

Richard's debut novel 'The Billionaire's Curse' won the inaugural Text Prize for Young Adult and Children's Writing. It is the first volume of a trilogy, and has been sold to publishers in the United States, Canada, Germany, Poland and Italy.