He is a British author and journalist. He was educated at Sherborne School in Dorset and at Magdalene College, Cambridge, England. He lives in Wiltshire with his wife and three children. He has three brothers one of whom is Andrew Stock currently president of the Society of Wildlife Artists.
Stock is a full time author. He was the editor of the Weekend section of the Daily Telegraph in the UK from 2005 till 2010. Additionally he was a columnist for The Week magazine in India contributing to their column called The Last Word from 1996 till 2012. He previously worked in New Delhi, India for a period of two years, as a foreign correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, and has also lived in Cochin, Kerala.