Hugo Read Author

Hugo Read is the great-grandson of Oswald White who spent 38 years in the Japan Consular Service (1903-1941). White's 'Japan memoir' was entitled All Ambition Spent, mostly written pre-1939 but completed towards the end of the war. Hugo Read is also the author of a portrait of Oswald White published in Britain & Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. X. He works in the telecoms industry, and is a wine consultant and member of the Association of Wine Educators. He writes on food, drink, travel.