Rob Jovanovic has written widely on music, sport and popular culture for magazines and newspapers, including Mojo, Q and Uncut. He has published definitive, influential and critically acclaimed books on Beck, Pavement, REM, Kate Bush, Nirvana, Big Star and his beloved Nottingham Forest.

He is currently researching and writing a book about the disappearance of Richey Edwards:

A VERSION OF REASON: The Search for Richey Edwards of the Manic Street Preachers (Orion, 2009)

On the 1st of February 1995, on the eve of a trip to the USA to promote the new album Holy Bible, Richey Edwards disappeared from a hotel bedroom in London, claiming that he was going to take a bath and have an early night. He has never been seen again.

Two weeks later Edwards’s car was found abandoned at a service station near to the Severn Bridge, a notorious suicide location. Where had he been for the intervening fourteen days? How long had the car been sitting there? Despite repeated sightings over the following years, in places as far apart as southern Spain, Scotland and Thailand, nobody knows what happened to Richey Edwards. His body has not been found. He hasn’t made contact with his family or friends. Did he simply want to disappear ... for ever? A Version of Reason will attempt to uncover the truth.

A Version of Reason will be published by Orion in Spring 2009.

See Rob’s own website here – www.jovanovic.co.uk