Mary Portas 6th most influential person in fashion. Portas' first book, "Windows – the Art of Retail Display", was published in five languages by Thames & Hudson. Her second book, "How to Shop with Mary, Queen of Shops", was published by BBC Books in 2007 to accompany the television series. The book was co-authored by Peter Cross, Josh Sims and Melanie Rickey. Her third book, "Mary Portas, Shop Girl, a memoir", was published by Doubleday in 2015. Since 2005, Mary has written a weekly column "Shop!", for the "Daily Telegraph" magazine, reviewing shops across the country. She started writing the column in
Krishnan Guru-Murthy Krishnan Guru-Murthy Krishnan Guru-Murthy (born 5 April 1970) is a British journalist on Channel 4. He presents the "Channel 4 News" and the foreign affairs documentary series "Unreported World". Guru-Murthy's father, a consultant radiologist, worked in Blackburn and Burnley; the family lived at West Bradford, Lancashire, before moving to a 'gothic folly' with four acres of land in a village outside Burnley. Guru-Murthy was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in Blackburn, which was independent at the time but is now a Free School, followed by Hertford College at the University of Oxford, where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics.