Nick Channer became a full-time writer in 1993 after publishing Untrodden Ways, a book of Britain's lesser-known long-distance paths. Since then he has written numerous walking and travel guides.

He takes a keen interest in social history and journeys with a literary theme. In 2005 Nick traced Richard Hannay's probable route across Scotland in John Buchan's classic adventure yarn The Thirty Nine Steps and visited the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland where Arthur Conan Doyle killed off Sherlock Holmes in the 1890s.

Nick has also worked on the highly successful AA Fifty walks series, and is a regular contributor to the AA's market leading Pub Guide.