James Taylor is a renowned author on a variety of classic car subjects; he has penned over one hundred books, but has always counted the Rover marque as his favourite. He has been researching and writing about it since the 1970s, and has become a leading authority on the subject, covering its whole history from 1904 to 2005. Among his books for Crowood have been the definitive histories of the P4 and P5 models.