Jolyon Connell

Two years later, in 1978, he joined The Sunday Times[4] as a staff journalist, working first in the newsroom and then for the Insight team.

In 1994, Connell left The Sunday Telegraph to found The Week magazine, selling the family house in London to help fund the project.

The guides are written by leading academics and bring in what the best critics say about great novels, plays and poems, in a similar way that The Week passes on the most interesting journalistic commentary.

Connell Guides have been widely praised for their content by, among others, Helena Bonham Carter, Joanna Lumley, William Boyd, Robert Harris, Julian Fellowes and Tom Stoppard.

Connell is also the publisher of Golf Quarterly,[13] a magazine he set up with Tim Dickson 20 years ago.

After leaving The Week, Connell launched The Knowledge in 2021,[14] with financial backing and support from Lord Rothermere and DGMT.

The Knowledge, like The Week,[15] seeks to distill the most interesting and surprising content from the world’s media, but does so on a daily basis as an email newsletter to subscribers.