Paradise Road

Paradise Road is a small, independent publisher of lovingly created non-fiction books about London. We publish books that are too niche and financially unrewarding for the mainstream publishers, but which we are sure will find their own appreciative audience out there somewhere.

We believe in books with generous amounts of carefully selected images, with maps and diagrams, and end sections of engrossing notes and digressions, appendices, bibliographies, timelines, filmographies and fulsome indexes.    

Who we are

Andrew Humphreys

Andrew spent 25 years in global newspaper and magazine publishing. On behalf of Time Out he launched magazines in Beijing, Shanghai and Mumbai, and as group editorial director at Ink he oversaw a portfolio of magazines published out of London, New York, Dallas, Singapore and Melbourne. He has co-founded and launched newspapers in the Baltic States and Cairo, and written guidebooks for Lonely Planet, National Geographic and Time Out to places including Siberia, Central Asia, Syria, Egypt, Iran, Israel & Palestine, Istanbul, Marrakech and Shanghai. He is the author of Raving Upon Thames: An Untold Story of Sixties London, which is published by Paradise Road.

Gadi Farfour

Gadi is an art director with a background in book and magazine design. She has worked for Time Out, Virgin Books, Lonely Planet and the American University in Cairo Press. She currently works at Dorling Kindersley, where she oversees the design of a wide variety of large-format adult-reference titles on topics such as Ancient Rome, Ancient Egypt, fashion and design.