Dec 3, 2020
Richard Gillis is an award-winning journalist working for several of the world’s leading newspaper and publishing groups. Formerly editor of SportBusiness International magazine, he then became Cricket Correspondent of the Irish Times covering Ireland’s remarkable 2007 ICC Cricket World Cup campaign in the Caribbean, where his reporting on the untimely death of Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer led the global news agenda. He now lives in London, where he is a columnist and feature interviewer for the Irish Times and writes about sport, business and the media for the Wall Street Journal, alongside media and communications consultancy work. His book The Captain Myth: The Ryder Cup and Sport’s Great Leadership Delusion was published by Bloomsbury in August 2016.
Dec 3, 2020
Pete Goding is the co-author of Mountain High and Mountain Higher. Specialising in Travel and Sports, his work with National Geographic Traveller magazine and the Press Association has taken him around the world photographing/filming landscapes, people & culture. Publishing intimate, dramatic & exclusive portraits of high-profile figures, architecture and the natural world, displayed across journals and national newspapers such as the Guardian, Telegraph and Times. His first book was finalist for the 2012 British Sportsbook of the year & shortlisted for the 2013 SweetSpot Cycling book of the year along with Mountain High App featuring in the final of the Future Book Innovation awards – Best non-fiction digital book 2014.
Websites: petegoding.com & petegodingphotography.com
Twitter: @pgoding
Instagram: petegoding
Apr 26, 2022
Hugh Godwin is a sports journalist who has been the rugby union correspondent of ‘I’, a national daily newspaper in the UK, since 2016, having previously held the same role with the ‘Independent on Sunday’ for eight years. He has written on rugby and other sports for 30 years, reporting live from five Rugby World Cup finals and interviewing every major rugby player and personality of the modern era. He is the secretary of the UK Rugby Union Writers’ Club and a regular radio broadcaster as a rugby analyst for BBC London. In a previous role as a photographic editor he worked at four Olympic Games (summer and winter). He has written two books: ‘England: Rugby World Champions’, celebrating the 2003 World Cup success, published by Mitchell Beazley, and his first biography ‘The Flying Prince: Alexander Obolensky’, published in 2021 by Hodder & Stoughton.
Twitter: @hughgodwin_
Apr 8, 2021
Daniel Gray’s latest book is The Silence of the Stands: Finding the Joy in Football’s Lost Season (Bloomsbury). His previous works include Extra Time: 50 Further Delights of Modern Football; Saturday, 3pm: 50 Eternal Delights of Modern Football; and Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters: Travels through England’s Football Provinces (all Bloomsbury). He has also written several other books on football, politics, literature, history and travel. His recent work has included presenting social history on television and writing across a number of national titles. He is the Editor of Nutmeg magazine and producer/host of the When Saturday Comes podcast. Daniel is a Middlesbrough fan exiled in Edinburgh.
Website: www.danielgraywriter.com
Twitter: @d_gray_writer
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Daniel-Gray-Writer-and-Broadcaster
YouTube: www.youtube.com/danielgraywriter
Dec 3, 2020
Dan Hall has been running the @HighgateMums Twitter account since 2012. The subsequent book, published by Atlantic in November 2016, is an hilarious collection bringing together the most outrageous snippets of conversation that have been overheard in the shops and cafes of this gentrified North London suburb. Highgate Mums also includes confessions from mothers dismayed by their own upper-middle-class offspring and submissions from fathers making fun of themselves with the hashtag #lattedads, revealing day-to-day life among Britain’s chattering classes as never before.
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