Emily Prescott

Emily Prescott is a 25-year-old journalist. She writes for publications such as the Evening Standard and The Sunday Times. For a while she worked as a news reporter documenting serious things but now she is focused on whimsy.

For instance, she interviewed Queen’s Brian May about allegations his new perfume smelled of badgers and reported on the prime minister’s father’s love of beavers. She chatted with Sir David Attenborough about how his garden grows and spoke to Madness’s Suggs about his fear that a tsunami of crap art will follow the pandemic.

When she’s not pestering cabinet ministers or panning parties for celebrity anecdotes, she paints, runs, tries to learn the piano and hosts a monthly poetry club focused on building that elusive sense of community in London. And of course writing her first book. She graduated from the University of Exeter with a degree in English. Although she now lives in south London, she grew up in a small village in south Gloucestershire.