Helena Drakakis

Helena Drakakis is a journalist and ghostwriter with more than twenty years experience of working across publishing, print and broadcast media.

She started her career at Bloomsbury Publishing. She has written for the GuardianIndependent and was deputy editor of the Big Issue magazine for four years before taking up assignments for Channel 4 News.

Ghosted projects include Don’t Laugh, It Will Only Encourage Her by Daisy May Cooper (Penguin, Sunday Times no. 1 bestseller); Roar: A Celebration of Great Sporting Women by Sam Quek; The Green Start-Up: Make Your Business Better for the Planet by Juliet Davenport OBE (Bonnier); Loving Amy: A Mother’s Story by Janis Winehouse (Transworld); Reborn by Katie Price (Century, Sunday Times no. 1 bestseller).