Dec 3, 2020
Jon Cooksey was a leading military historian with a particular interest in the the world wars and the Falklands War. His expertise also led to him being an experienced battlefield guide, frequently leading tours to battlefields from these wars. He has written a number of books including The Barnsey Pals, Flanders 1915, Calais: A Fight to the Finish and 3 Para Mount Longdon: The Bloodiest Battle, as well as writing for a number of military magazines and editing Stand To!. He also wrote articles for a number of national newspapers and appears frequently on television and radio. Most recently he collaborated with David Griffiths on a new collection of diary entries by First World War Private Harry Drinkwater entitled Harry’s War, published by Ebury Press.
Dec 3, 2020
A journalist for three decades, Peter Cossins has written about everything from drug scandals at the Tour de France to butchers battling to be crowned Britain’s pork pie champion. A former Editor of Procycling magazine, Pete is the author of many books on cycling including The Yellow Jersey (Random House, 2019), winner of the Cycling Book of the Year in the 2020 Telegraph Sports Book Awards, and Full Gas: How to Win a Bike Race (Yellow Jersey, 2018), which won the same award in 2019. His other books include The Monuments: The Grit and the Glory of Cycling’s Greatest One-Day Races (Bloomsbury, March 2015, second edition March 2023), Alpe d’Huez: The Story of Pro Cycling’s Greatest Climb (Aurum, June 2016), Ultimate Etapes: Ride Europe’s Greatest Cycling Stages (Aurum, 2016), Butcher, Blacksmith, Acrobat Sweep: The Tale of the First Tour de France (Yellow Jersey, 2017), and A Cyclist’s Guide to the Pyrenees (Great Northern Books, 2021). Pete’s most recent book, Climbers: Pain, panache and polka dots in cycling’s greatest arenas was published by Cassell in June 2022.
Twitter: @petercossins
Instagram: petercossins
Website: https://lacourseentete.com/
Dec 3, 2020
James Coyne is the assistant editor of The Cricketer magazine, where he has written for and edited the world’s leading cricket magazine since 2016 and was a contributor to The Cricketer Anthology of the Ashes (Allen & Unwin). Before that he was the assistant editor on six editions of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack, and continues to co-edit their Cricket Round the World section on Associate nations. He has been a regular reporter on England and county cricket for more than a decade. Inspired by joint experiences on several intrepid cricket tours to mainland Europe with Timothy Abraham – arguably James’s lasting cricketing legacy will be as the first wicket to fall in a competitive match in Serbia – and a burning interest in Latin American culture and history, he embarked on the book Evita Burned Down Our Pavilion: a cricket odyssey through Latin America (Constable and Robinson, 2021) alongside Abraham. James also plays for his local cricket club in Bedfordshire. He is married to Baiba, and they have a young daughter, Hannah.
Twitter: @CoyneJames
Dec 3, 2020
Adam Crafton began his journalistic career before he went to Cambridge University to study Modern and Medieval Languages. A writer for the Daily Mail, he has twice been shortlisted for the SJA Young Sportswriter of the Year Award. His debut book, From Guernica to Guardiola: Eighty Years of Los Rojos, was published by Simon & Schuster in Spring 2018. He lives in Manchester.
Apr 8, 2021
John Cross has been a football journalist for the Daily Mirror for 22 years and is now the paper’s Chief Football Writer, reporting on World Cups, European Championships, Premier League and the Champions League.
His book Arsene Wenger: The Inside Story of Arsenal Under Wenger (Simon and Schuster, 2015) was a huge success, it was translated into numerous languages and was an insightful biography on the former Arsenal manager.
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