John and Anne Nuttall are the authors of the popular Mountains of England and Wales as well as nine other guidebooks. For 18 years they wrote a weekly column for the Manchester Evening News and in over 900 walks are experts on walking in North West England. Many of these walks are now available through their website?? ( www.nuttalls.com ). Anne was a member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society but gave up pharmacy to concentrate on outdoor writing. John was formerly a Chartered Engineer and manager with ICL. Their Cicerone guides are noted for John's pen and ink drawings.

Their books won the 1993 and 1996 OWG/COLA Award for Excellence (guidebook) and the 1997 Lakeland Book of the Year Award. John also won the OWG 2006 Words and Pictures Award for Excellence.