Tobias Jones is the author of four non-fiction books,A Blood on the Altar,A The Dark Heart of Italy, Basilitica and Utopian Dreams; andA the Castagnetti crime trilogy, The Salati Case, White Death and Death of a Showgirl. He has worked as a journalist in Britain for the London Review of Books,A the Independent on SundayA and theA Observer; and in Italy, producing two political documentary series for the Italian state broadcaster RAI 3. He lives at Windsor Hill Wood in Somerset with his wife and three children where he runs a working farm refuge.