Henry Jeffreys was born in Harrow, Middlesex in 1977. He was brought up in Amersham, Bucks and educated at the University of Leeds where he studied English and Classical Literature. After graduation he was spending so...
Henry Jeffreys was born in Harrow, Middlesex in 1977. He was brought up in Amersham, Bucks and educated at the University of Leeds where he studied English and Classical Literature. After graduation he was spending so much time in Oddbins that they offered him a job. He worked in the wine trade for two years and then moved into publishing with stints at Hodder & Stoughton, Bloomsbury and Granta. He is currently Head of Publicity at Oneworld Publications. In parallel to this career, Henry has worked as a freelance journalist. Under the name Henry Castiglione, he reviewed books for the Telegraph and thefirstpost.co.uk, and wrote a regular column for travel website momondo.com. Under the name Blake Pudding he was a founder member of the London Review of Breakfasts website as well as a contributor to the Breakfast Bible (Bloomsbury, 2013). In 2010 he started a blog about wine called Henry’s World of Booze which is currently in the top ten UK alcohol blogs according to Cision. Since 2010 he has been wine columnist for the Lady magazine and is now an occasional contributor to the Spectator and Guardian on booze-related matters. Empire of Booze is his first book.
