C.J. Schüler's latest book, The Wood That Built London, a history of the woodland that once covered much of South London, is published by Sandstone Press on 7 October 2021. His travelogue Along the Amber Route (also from Sandstone), hailed as ‘timely and powerful’ by the Financial Times on its publication in February 2020, was shortlisted for Stanford Dolman Award and longlisted for the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize.. He is the author of three illustrated histories of cartography: Mapping the World, Mapping the City, and Mapping the Sea and Stars, (Éditions Place des Victoires/Frechmann) and co-author of the best-selling Traveller’s Atlas, (Barron, 1999). His history of the Authors’ Club of London, Writers, Lovers, Soldiers, Spies, was published in 2016 to critical acclaim. He has also written on literature, travel and the arts for The Independent, The Tablet, the Financial Times, and Slightly Foxed magazine. Since graduating from Oxford University with a degree in English Language and Literature, he has worked in publishing and journalism, serving on the staff of The Independent, and the Rough Guides, and is now a freelance editor and copywriter. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 2011, and was chairman of the Authors’ Club from 2008 to 2015. He lives in South London with his wife, and is a conservation volunteer at his local nature reserve.