Dana Facaros

Nicknamed 'the Dynamic Duo of Travel Writing' in the UK press, Dana Facaros and her husband Michael Pauls studied urban design, art, languages, and history, and raised their two children in six different countries. Their Cadogan guides to Greece, Italy, Spain, Turkey and France were a little revolution at the time: guides with a rich and thorough treatment of history and culture, a little irreverence and a sense of fun.

They also wandered further afield to write guides to Mars and Hell; the latter, the Traveller' Guide to Hell was completely updated and released as their first ebook in January 2014. They've also published a pair apps, an indepth city guide (Barcelona Unbound) and the Italian Menu Decoder, the condensed essence of 25 years of eating and writing about Italy.