Paulo Tullio has worked variously in a psychiatric hospital, as a cattle exporter, award-winning restaurateur, computer programmer and actor. A weekly columnist in the Irish Independent Magazine, the Times Literary Supplement describes him as “gregarious, unable to keep a secret and gifted with a breathtakingly crude sense of fun”. His book North of Naples, South of Rome was a national bestseller, and became an acclaimed television series. He lives in County Wicklow.