Born in Melbourne, Bill Granger moved to Sydney where he opened his first, highly successful restaurant, bills, at the age of twenty-two. Bill's cookbooks – bills Sydney food, bills food, bills open kitchen, simply bill, Every Day, Holiday and Feed Me Now! – are all international bestsellers. His TV series, bills food, launched in 2004, is broadcast worldwide and watched by more than two million viewers per episode in the UK alone. His TV series, Bill's Holiday, first aired in Australia in 2009.