After working as a copywriter at the BBC, Adrian Besley became a freelance writer. He has written many successful non-fiction titles, including the recent official Monty Python Hidden Secrets, which told the story of Monty Python through artefacts from the archives; boy band biography 5 Seconds of Summer Confidential; a series of top-selling YouTube books such as YouTube World Records; and various humour titles such as The Retrosexual Manual (which made Amazon’s top 100 best sellers), The Dangerous Book for Idiots and How to Fart at School.