Paul K. Lyons

Paul K. Lyons spent many years as a Euro-journalist, writing about energy, environmental and transport policies. His business publications were among the first to focus exclusively on these issues from an EU perspective. His experiences in Brussels led him to write and publish 'Kip Fenn – Reflections' (re-published in paperback as the 'Not a Brave New World' trilogy). This is the bold fictional biography of a high-level UN official who lives throughout the 21st century working to improve inter-national cooperation and reduce the rich-poor divide.

Lyons was an early enthusiast for psychogeography, with his online book, 'London Cross', describing a 30 mile straight line walk across Greater London. The History Press published his two local history books: 'Brighton in Diaries' and 'Brighton & Hove Then & Now'.

Most recently, his passion for diaries has led him to create three diary websites, all freely available and non-commercial: The Diary Junction (a database of 500 diarists), And So Made Significant . . . (possibly the world’s greatest diary anthology), and The Diary Review with over a thousand news-type articles on diaries and diarists. His own colourful diaries, spanning more than half a century, can also be found online. In late 2018, Wiley-Blackwell published his comprehensive essay on diaries in 'A Companion to Literary Biography'.

His latest book – 'Why Ever Did I Want to Write: Patchwork of a writing life' – is a themed memoir about his early life, in which he reflects on a repressed childhood, explores the world through years of travelling, and searches for meaning and excitement through the arts and love affairs - an archetype of the 1970s and 1980s.

He has one adult son, and now lives in Brighton with his wife, Hattie, and their two young sons.