Simon Petherick is a writer and ghostwriter of award-winning non-fiction and fiction titles. His latest book, Jack and Barry, a novella which imagines a brief friendship between Jack Kerouac and Barry Goldwater in Arizona in 1964, was published by Leapfrog Press in the UK and USA in June 2023. His next title, The Last Good Man – another novella – is out this Fall from Leapfrog. Simon has lived in London for many years and has been a part of London’s fabric all his adult life: arranging rock concerts in Hyde Park, running the fashion house Hardy Amies in Savile Row, writing and publishing books from an office in Soho.
