Robert Wringham

Wringham is the founder of New Escapologist, a lifestyle magazine that ran from 2007 to 2017. The magazine advocated escape from the daily grind[4] and notable features included work by or interviews with Alain de Botton, Will Self, Richard Herring, Ewan Morrison, Tom Hodgkinson, Luke Rhinehart and Caitlin Doughty.

In 2012, Go Faster Stripe published Wringham's first non-fiction book You Are Nothing,[5] a micro-history of comedy troupe Cluub Zarathustra,[6] whose members included Stewart Lee, Simon Munnery, Kevin Eldon, Julian Barratt, Graham Linehan, Sally Phillips and Johnny Vegas.[7][8] The book is written from Wringham's perspective and draws on interviews with the cast and audience members.

2014 saw the publication of A Loose Egg, a collection of short comic stories about Wringham's childhood, bachelorhood and early married life. In 2015, it was longlisted and finally shortlisted for the Leacock Medal.[9][10]

In 2015, Wringham crowdfunded a New Escapologist-related book with publisher Unbound[11] and the resulting Escape Everything! was released in 2016. A German edition called Ich Bin Raus was published in the same year and attracted considerable media attention.[12][13][14][15][16][17]

Wringham writes for Joshua Glenn's pop culture website HiLobrow,[18] and has a column in the Idler magazine.[19][20]

In an article for the one-hundredth edition of Canadian Notes and Queries, he discusses the value of humorous literature and mentions an admiration for the work of Eric Nicol, Susan Juby, Paul Quarrington and Vinyl Cafe's Stuart McLean.[21]

Originally from Dudley, Wringham moved to Glasgow in 2004.[22] He is also a Resident of Canada.[23][24] In 2014 he married his long-term partner Samara, who appears as a foil in some of his writing.[25]

His pseudonym comes from James Hogg's Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, a Scottish gothic horror novel.[26]

• Robert Wringham's Official website