Tony Rocca

Tony was born in the suburbs of Manchester, UK, the great-grandson of an Italian immigrant from Genoa whose own son (Tony's grandfather) was closely identified with Manchester United for over forty years. In 1902 he actually gave the club its name.

At the age of seventeen he began a long journalistic career by joining a local paper in Stockport, Greater Manchester, and has been writing for a living almost ever since. He left England when he was twenty to spend a year in Greece as associate editor of the English-language daily, Athens News. Returning to London, he worked for ten years at Daily Mail followed by another ten at The Sunday Times. His foreign assignments have taken him to some of the world's hotspots in Israel, Greece, Czechoslovakia, Colombia and Uganda and Cyprus. For a while he was based in the Daily Mail's New York bureau as a correspondent covering North America.

In 1982 Tony and his wife, Mira, left London to live abroad. He spent several years freelancing from France and Italy before they began the Italian adventure recounted in CHIANTI ON THE ROCKS. His articles appeared in most British national newspapers as well as the New York Times, and Reader's Digest. For a while he was European Editor of Travel Holiday Magazine (USA).

CHIANTI ON THE ROCKS is available as an e-book for Kindle here: http://www.amazon.com/Chianti-on-the-Rocks-ebook/dp/B0096OH9AU

In 2008 Tony and Mira published a book together that was based on letters, notes and little essays her mother, Violette Shamash, started writing to them when they left London. They form the story of the Jewish community in Baghdad in the first half of the 20th century, a remarkable tale which William Shawcross calls 'Superbly readable; an astonishing record.' Among other leading authors and historians, Sir Martin Gilbert has found it 'a fascinating and important book.'

MEMORIES OF EDEN is also available on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/8lvhkpv

More at http://www.memoriesofeden.com and the blog, http://memoriesofeden.wordpress.com/

Tony has just published his first novel, YOU SEND ME, a story based on true events in the city of Peterborough, UK. It is available either as a paperback or e-book for Kindle at http://www.amazon.co.uk/You-Send-Me-ebook/dp/B00DU98HDU/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1373385656&sr=1-2&keywords=you+send+me

In paperback form it is also available from http://www.lulu.com/shop/tony-rocca/you-send-me/paperback/product-21107856.html

For further details please visit http://www.tonyrocca.com