Apr 16, 2021
Matt Little has been working in Elite level tennis for over 15 years. During this time he has worked with players and teams of all ages from the bottom to the very top of the game. His career achievements include 10 years as part of Team Murray. Recently undertaking the role of leading Andy’s support team for his incredible world dominating 2016 where he won Olympic gold, Wimbledon and world number one. Matt has also spent 5 years as the strength and conditioning coach for Great Britain’s 2015 Davis Cup winning team, helping them from a relegation playoff in Euro-Africa group 2, to winning the competition 5 years later. Matt is now an internationally recognised leader in his industry and public speaker on a vast range of subjects including youth development, strength and conditioning, soft skills and life skills. His debut book, The Way of the Tortoise, was published by Michael O’Mara books in June 2021.
Apr 16, 2021
Sid Lowe lives in Madrid and writes a weekly column for guardian.co.uk. He also writes regularly for The Guardian, World Soccer, FourFourTwo, and the Telegraph. He is a commentator and panelist for Spanish, Asian and US television and has translated for David Beckham, Michael Owen, and Thomas Gravesen. He translated Fernado Torres’ El Nino: My Story (Harper Collins, 2009). His bestselling Fear and Loathing in La Liga is published by Yellow Jersey and has been shortlisted for the Football Book of the Year at the 2014 British Sports Book Awards. Sid worked with Pete Jenson on the Luis Suarez autobiography, Crossing the Line – My Story. They also collaborated on Iniesta’s hugely successful autobiography, published by Headline in September 2016.
Jul 8, 2021
Michelle Lyons was a prison reporter before becoming the chief spokesman of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, the second largest prison system in the United States. Over the course of 12 years and in both roles, she witnessed nearly 300 executions by lethal injection, including some of Texas’ most infamous death row inmates. In her book, Death Row: The Final Minutes, she writes about her time as an execution witness, including memorable stories of last statements, final meals and death row conversations – as well as the toll witnessing so much death eventually takes.
Michelle lives in Huntsville, Texas, and can be found on Twitter, where she generally is ranting about prisons or politics in between bans for using inappropriate language.
Twitter: @mclyons4
Apr 16, 2021
Ben Lyttleton is a footballer writer and consultant whose books focus on
psychology, leadership and education through football. He is the author of Twelve Yards: The Art and Psychology of the Penalty Kick (Bantam Press
) and Edge: Leadership Secrets from Football’s Top Thinkers. He is the co-author, along with Alex Bellos, of the best-selling children’s book series Football School, which he has written to improve children’s literacy, open up the school curriculum and encourage children to develop a curiosity about the world. There are over ten books in the Football School series. For more details of the series, their YouTube channel and Football School lessons that they provide to schools and football clubs, check out their website here. He also helps clubs improve their performance through understanding culture and analytics.
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Jul 15, 2022
Gavin Mairs is the award-winning Chief Rugby Correspondent for The Daily Telegraph, where he has worked since 2009. He has covered rugby union for over 20 years, including previously as rugby correspondent for the Belfast Telegraph and Yorkshire Post, and has reported from every World Cup and Five/Six Nations Championship since 1999 and every British and Irish Lions tour since 2001.
Gavin has co-authored four books, most recently the best-selling autobiography of Andy Farrell, former Wigan and Great Britain rugby league star and now Ireland rugby union and British and Irish Lions head coach, entitled ‘The Only Way I Know’, published by Penguin Sandycove, in October 2025. It has been shortlisted for the Sports Book of the Year at the 2025 Irish Book Awards.
Other books include Maggie Alphonsi’s autobiography called ‘Winning the Fight’, which was published by Polaris in August 2023 and was shortlisted for the Sports Book Awards Autobiography of the Year.
He also collaborated with Martin Bayfield, the former England and Lions forward and broadcaster and actor, on his autobiography called ‘A Very Tall Story’, published by Simon & Schuster in September 2022; and the autobiography of Rory Best, the former Ireland and British and Irish Lions captain, ‘Rory Best: My Autobiography’, published by Hodder & Stoughton in March 2020.
Gavin is a former winner of Sports Journalist of the Year award at the Northern Ireland Press and Broadcast awards and Sportswriter of the Year at the Yorkshire Press Awards.
He has been shortlisted eight times for Rugby Journalist of the Year at the Sports Journalists Association Awards and awarded silver in 2023.
X: @gavinmairs
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