Simon Fenwick is a professional archivist, who has worked on the papers of Patrick Leigh Fermor and Xan Fielding.  He is the author of Joan: Beauty, Rebel, Muse - the Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor (Macmillan 2017 and paperback 2018).

“In this engrossing biography, the woman hitherto overshadowed by her husband is brought to full colour… a vivid portrait of her and the places and people she loved.”  Observer

His next work was The Crichel Boys, published by Little, Brown 2021.