Alison Taylor

Alison Taylor is a writer and journalist living in East London. Her column on relationships appears weekly in the Independent. Specialising in fashion, arts and lifestyle, she has regularly contributed to Harper's Bazaar, The Guardian, Stella, Nylon, Stylist, Elle and xojane.co.uk. She is a contributing editor at net-a-porter.com and Urban Junkies and her first book, The Still Single Papers, was published by Mainstream (Random House) in 2012. Alison also lectures in journalism at London College of Fashion, University of the Creative Arts and Lincoln University.

In June 2009 she started writing an anonymous blog, Lovefool Forever, about her experiences of being single, mainly because so much of it was so galling that she needed to write it down. This became The Still Single Papers - a funny, self-deprecating look at dating in the second decade of the 21st century. A journal-style memoir covering 12 months in the life of one incurable romantic, it is a modern take on the straightjacket that is 'still single,' firmly rejecting the accepted wisdoms and rules.

Visit Alison Taylor's website: http://www.alisontaylor.me.uk/
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''Makes Bridget Jones's Diary read like a Saga Holidays brochure' John Niven
'An unflinchingly frank and funny look at 21st century dating that makes Carrie Bradshaw look like a nun digging around in the bottom of a dusty wardrobe for a matching pair of flip-flops' Big Issue in the North
'The Still Single Papers might be the book of the summer' Stella 

Alison's ghosted books have garnered the following comments:

'Brilliant memoir' Heat
'Delicious.' Mail on Sunday
'Formidable – there's a cracking wit throughout the book.' Independent
'One hell of a read.' Beauty and the Dirt blog