Half a Pound of Tuppenny Rice

DAVID COUBROUGH founded the specialist hospitality company Portfolio Recruitment in the 1980s and twice sold it to public companies, on the second occasion becoming Chief Executive of the PLC. He is on the Board of Governors of the Royal Academy of Culinary Arts and is a past Chairman of Bespoke Hotels and the Castle Hotel at Taunton. He is a Director of Maldon Sea Salt and is on the Board of Bloomsbury Properties. He co-owns the Beehive pub and Restaurant in Berkshire and is now immersed in writing his second novel.