He describes his writing as 'Men Lit', as opposed to the female ' Chick Lit'.īorn in Romford, Essex (now Greater London), he was the only child of working-class parents. His novels typically deal with relationship problems, emotional dramas and the traumas of men and women in our time. Parsons has since published a series of best-selling novels – One For My Baby (2001), Man and Wife (2003), The Family Way (2004), Stories We Could Tell (2006), My Favourite Wife (2008), Starting Over (2009), Men From the Boys (2010), The Murder Bag (2014), and The Slaughter Man (2015).
He had previously written a number of novels including The Kids (1976), Platinum Logic (1981) and Limelight Blues (1983). Parsons is the author of the novel Man and Boy (1999). He was for a time a regular guest on the BBC Two arts review programme The Late Show, and appeared infrequently on the successor Newsnight Review he also briefly hosted a series on Channel 4 called Big Mouth. Since September 2013, Parsons has written a column for The Sun. Later he wrote for The Daily Telegraph, before going on to write for the Daily Mirror for 18 years. He began his career as a music journalist for New Musical Express ( NME), writing about punk music. Tony Victor Parsons (born 6 November 1953) is an English journalist, broadcaster, and author.
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