Paul Sidey was a greatly respected and much-loved editor who started his career at Penguin in 1970. In 1980 he moved to Hutchinson where he worked as an Editorial Director until his retirement in 2012. When his children were young he published two volumes of poems for children. Following his retirement he wrote three novels based on Arthurian and Greek legend and thena few months before his death of cancer in September 2014completed The Book of Wag.