Karin Tearle Author & Illustrator

Martin Dunford is one of the founders of the international travel guide series Rough Guides and is the author of more than 10 guidebooks, including 111 Places you Shouldn’t Miss in Greenwich. As founder of the UK travel and accommodation website www.coolplaces.co.uk, he writes regularly about the UK, and he is also a trustee of the Norfolk charity, The Broads Trust, working regularly with tourism businesses in the Broads National Park. He divides his time between London and Norfolk.

Karin Tearle has a BA in French and Italian from Goldsmiths, University of London and lived in Bordeaux, France for several years before returning to the UK to have a family. She is a trustee of the Rwanda Development Trust which funds small capacity-building projects and was interpreter for the BBC World Service for a programme about the 1994 genocide. Karin has retained her links with the country and continues to work with the Rwandese. She also manages a listed building in Greenwich and has an affinity with this historic town where she has lived for 13 years. Karin is social secretary of Aperture Woolwich Photographic Society, one of the oldest clubs in the country and is extremely passionate about photography.