Jonathan Lipman was born in Oxfordshire, England in 1968. In 1994, he met a variety of Eastern Europeans on a course at Oxford University, and fell in love with one of them - Marzena, a Pole. In 1997, they married in Krakow, and spent the next two years in Poland - the subject of Jonathan’s first book, Polska Dotty. They returned to the UK 1999 and live in Buckinghamshire with their two daughters. Since 2004 when Poland joined the EU, the new wave of Polish immigrants provided the inspiration for Polska Dotty 2. Jonathan works as a lawyer, Marzena in consumer affairs.