Peter York is an author, columnist and broadcaster based in London. His books include Style Wars (1980), The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook – co-authored with Ann Barr (1982), Modern Times (1984), Peter York’s Eighties (1995), which, co-authored with Charles Jennings, was both a book and a BBC television series, and Dictators’ Homes (2005). His most recent book is Cooler, Faster, More Expensive: The Return of the Sloane Ranger (2007), which he co-wrote with Olivia Stewart-Liberty.