Andrew Sanger is a well-established freelance travel writer who has contributed hundreds of travel articles to British newspapers and magazines and has written over 25 guidebooks, mostly about regions of France. Fiona Nichols lives in the south of France where she continues to write and photograph travel-related features and books. Gillian Thomas and John Harrison , husband-and-wife authors of this book, are both members of the British Guild of Travel Writers. They reside in West London.