Christofi was born in Dorset to a British mother and Cypriot father, and grew up in Bournemouth.
[4] In 2017, he published his second novel, Let Us Be True, about a German-born couple falling in love in post-war France.
[6] In 2015, Christofi was appointed commissioning editor for non-fiction at Oneworld, previously working for Conville and Walsh.
[7] In February 2020, it was announced he would be leaving Oneworld to join Transworld Publishers's non-fiction team as an editorial director in April of that year.
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