Jeremy Bowell has been working in the English language teaching field for over 25 years. He has taught English in Poland, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Romania. In 2004, he joined the ELT division of Oxford University Press (OUP). He spent nine years at the Press working as an editor on international secondary course books, as well as taking on a number of presenting and teacher training assignments across Europe. He left OUP in 2013 to pursue a career as an author, and since then he has written for a number of OUP courses including Solutions, English Plus, Life Vision, and First Success. He has also written graded readers, children’s and young adult fiction. He lives in a village outside Oxford and in his free time enjoys cinema, gardening, running, paddle boarding and bread baking. But not always at the same time.