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Tony Edwards wrote his first novel in 2002, if you ignore a three-page tome about a magician he penned when he was six - as everyone else did at the time. Wilson Lacigam's Bentley was published in paperback in May 2003 and has since been the focus of over six hours of radio exposure and many hundreds of column inches in newspapers.

His second novel, A Gentle Wind, was published two years later in June 2005.

Starting out as a journalist, Edwards launched himself as a publicity consultant and became the power behind the birth of Carnaby Street and the so-called 'Swinging London' movement. He 'invented' and still runs the annual 'Rear of the Year' awards and a broad spectrum of high-profile media campaigns.

For two years, during the 1970's, he wrote television comedy for 'Two Ronnies', Dave Allen and other comedians of the same era. As a result of this short foray into the fringes of show business, he has since worked with many star names on national publicity campaigns. Edwards still regularly grabs the news headlines for an impressive list of PR clients and called upon some of his personal experiences in the world of celebrity publicity for his 2008 novel Dark Glasses.

Married with two sons, he lives in Surrey with his former-actress wife Greta and is the proud owner of three classic cars, including a 1958 Bentley which was 'borrowed' by the title character in Wilson Lacigam's Bentley. The Elders, his latest work, published in June 2011, was inspired by two significant statistics. There are more over-sixties than under-sixteens in the UK today and, perhaps more importantly, there are twice as many pensioners as Trade Union members.

"Pensioner Power is a potential force to be reckoned with," he says. "Governments ignore it at their peril."