Malcolm Croft is a popular culture writer and former commissioning editor at Portico and Robson Books. His career started in journalism with Empire, the Daily Mirror and the Independent. He has written extensively on music: BTS: The Ultimate Fan Book, 50 Years of Glastonbury and Coldplay: Life in Technicolor (with the blessing of the band). He also wrote The Travel Book (Lonely Planet Kids), The Very Embarrassing Book of Dad Jokes (Portico), the official movie book Rocketman (Welbeck) and The Planet's Most Spiritual Places (Quarto).