Martin Wainwright

Martin Wainwright has been the Northern Editor of The Guardian for 16 years and broadcasts regularly on television and radio. Born in Leeds the son of the Liberal MP Richard Wainwright he co-wrote The Which? Guide to Yorkshire and the Peak District and among his other books on northern or countryside topics are a biography of the English fellwalker and author Alfred Wainwright (no relation) True North: In Praise of England's Better Half and a guide to the Coast to Coast Walk as well as A Gleaming Landscape: A Hundred Years of The Guardian's Country Diary.