Jonathan Durden co-founded the global media group PHD. He is the ‘D’ of PHD. It now enjoys an annual turnover of $12 billion per annum, employs 8,000 people in over 100 offices worldwide.
Jonathan was voted the number one media planner in the UK on several occasions. He was also a housemate on the reality show Big Brother 8 in 2007.
Jonathan co-founded a male grooming range called ‘Below the Belt Grooming’ and has been a board adviser to ITV, LADbible Group, Digital Cinema Media, amongst many other media owners and advertising companies.
Jonathan wrote and published his first novel ‘Essex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll’ in 2008.
Jonathan’s latest book, ‘Wave Goodbye,’ has just been released and is being promoted in hundreds of cinemas nationwide, on television, on DOOH (digital out-of-home) poster sites and via social media.
Essex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll
Mark Cohen is a 40-year-old family man, with all of the designer evidence to pass any Essex surface-wealth audit.
One evening, he returns home to find that his wife is dead and his daughter has just attempted suicide.
All fear of consequences now lost, Mark writes a list of reasons why he would come back to haunt this world if he were to die, and sets out to explore them. In one amazing year, Mark gets to discover the best and the worst life to offers.
“Grown-up lad lit”… “Irvine Welsh with an Essex accent”… “Rake’s Progress, the millenial London version”
Billionaire Suzanne Pollard loses her mother Mavis and vows to offer a better experience to those facing death. She buys a cruise ship, names it ‘Wave Goodbye’, and fills it with people in their last year of life.
It becomes a floating bucket list. Deeper friendships are forged faster than in normal life, through sharing some incredible experiences and fears.
Join Suzanne, the passengers and crew in bake off, X Factor-style talent show, an orgy, a drugs party, a trip to the Northern Lights, Sicily, and African safari.
Wave Goodbye is available on Amazon Kindle Unlimited, as a standard and large print paperback. Reviews include:
- “Brilliant read… perfect to lift the soul”
- “Don’t wave goodbye until you read this book”
- “Fun and thought provoking”
- “Insight, tenderness and humour”
- “Naughty, fun and frollick on the high seas”