Patrick Hennessey

Patrick Hennessey is a writer and broadcaster.  He was born in 1982 and educated at Berkhamsted School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read English. On leaving university he joined the Army and served from 2004 to 2009 as an officer in the Grenadier Guards. In between guarding towers, castles and palaces he worked in the Balkans, Africa, South East Asia, the Falkland Islands and deployed on operational tours of Iraq and Afghanistan. Since leaving the Army he has written two books; The Junior Officers’ Reading Club (Allen Lane, 2009), a bestselling memoir of a brief but eventful stint in uniform and Kandak (Allen Lane, 2012), a journalistic account of his return to Afghanistan and his experiences serving with the Afghan National Army. He is now a barrister.