Cigars: A Guide

Nicholas Foulkes is the author of over 20 books. His most recent include, Bernard Buffet: The Invention of the Modern Mega-artist and Patek Phillipe: The Authorized Biography . His books have been published by Little, Brown, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Flammarion, Assouline, Random House and Thomas Dunne Books in the USA. He contributes to a wide range of newspapers and magazines around the world. For over 20 years he has written the Bolivar cigar column for Country Life . He is a contributing editor to the FT 's How To Spend It magazine, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair ; and luxury editor of British GQ . He launched and continues to edit Vanity Fair 's twice yearly watch magazine On Time . In 2007 he was named Havana Man of the Year by the Cuban government, having been nominated for this award on four previous occasions. He is a graduate of Hertford College, Oxford and lives in London with his wife and two sons.