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.
Dec 3, 2020
Dietmar Hamann. Born in Waldsassen in Germany in 1973, Dietmar Hamann played football for Wacker Munich, Bayern Munich, Newcastle United, Liverpool, Manchester City and MK Dons. Amongst the many honours awarded to Hamann over his career, he won two UEFA Cups, two FA Cups, two League Cups and a Champions League winners’ medal. His memoir, The Didi Man: My Love Affair with Liverpool, with a forward by comedian John Bishop, was published by Headline in 2012 to widespread acclaim.
Apr 16, 2021
Maurice Hamilton was the Observer’s award-winning motor racing correspondent between 1990-2010 and F1 commentator/summariser for BBC Radio 5 Live for 20 years. Having covered Grand Prix racing since 1977, Maurice is now a highly respected and successful published author. Books include his phenomenal biography of Formula 1 racing legend, Niki Lauda; published in the UK by Simon and Schuster in May 2020, it has become a major bestseller in Austria and Germany for Edel Verlag as well as being published in Finland, Croatia and the Netherlands. Maurice followed this up with an acclaimed biography Incredible! (Transworld) on the legendary motor sport broadcaster, Murray Walker. Maurice’s backlist includes Formula One: The Champions (Aurum Press), The Official History of Formula 1 (Welbeck), The Art of Racing, McLaren: 50 Years of Racing (Prestel), Senna, Prost, Hunt (Blink), Formula One : The Champions (White Lion) and Grand Prix Circuits, first published in October 2015 and revised and updated in 2022 by Collins. Maurice also worked with Collins on Formula 1 Cars, published in September 2025. New ground was broken in the same year when Racing Legends: Lando Norris was short-listed for the ‘RAC Motoring Book of the Year’ award. This was the first time both a paperback and a children’s book had been nominated for this prestigious award. Racing Legends is a series of several books for 7-11 year olds on Formula 1 and its top drivers.
X: @mauricehamilton
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