Andy Coyne

• Andy has been a working journalist for nearly 40 years, a career covering everything from local newspapers and the music press to business, finance and property at the national and regional level. Currently freelancing, he has contributed to newspapers at home and abroad and also provided media training advice for businesses. He was educated at the Polytechnic of Central London (now the University of Westminster) where he achieved a BA (Hons) 2:2 in the country’s first ever Media Studies degree course.

• A newcomer to Save My Exams, Andy’s first project was the Susan Hill novel I’m the King of the Castle.

• In his spare time, Andy enjoys reading, watching Aston Villa FC and Warwickshire CCC, live music and travel.

Expertise:
As an experienced journalist whose career has been based on explaining complex issues in a succinct and understandable way, Andy’s skill lies in focusing in on the important points a novelist is trying to make and explaining them in the same direct, factual way he
would cover a news story.

Top revision quote for students:
“Writers don’t write in a vacuum. Try to understand not just the intent behind their words but the context in which they were written”