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 One 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) and Grand Prix Circuits, first published in October 2015 and revised and updated in 2022 by Collins.
Twitter: @mauricehamilton
Apr 16, 2021
Lance Hardy was a former producer and editor at BBC Sport. His book, Stokoe, Sunderland and ’73 (Orion) was shortlisted for Football Book of the Year at the British Sports Book Awards and his collaboration with Steve Davis, Interesting (Ebury Press), was shortlisted for Autobiography of the Year at the British Sports Book Awards and was a Sunday Times bestseller. He also co-authored Bobby Dazzler (Orion) with Bobby George and Footballer (Bantam Press) with Kelly Smith.
Twitter: @lancejohnhardy
Instagram: lancejohnhardy
Apr 16, 2021
Nick Harris has been a respected journalist, broadcaster and author for 45 years. He is probably best known as a radio and television commentator and presenter. For 18 years he hosted and commentated on the MotoGP World Championship. When he announced his retirement over 1.2 million viewers tuned into his farewell Facebook video. He has also worked for the BBC, Channel 9 in Australia and TalkSPORT radio in both two and four wheeled World Championship sport.
In June 2019 Penguin Random House UK through Virgin books published Never Say Never which was Nick’s very personal 70-year history of the World Motorcycle Championship. A paperback was published in 2020 and Nick narrated the audio version. Three years ago, Nick compiled and edited The Racing Together book for the sport’s governing body. Fifteen years ago, Nick’s Barry Sheene biography written in conjunction with Steve Parrish and published by Little Brown sold over 85,000 copies and featured in the Sunday Times best sellers list. His ultimate history of the TT races was published in 1990 and he also wrote the autobiography of double World Champion Freddie Spencer.
Nick lives in Oxford and is a lifelong fan of Oxford United as a commentator, journalist and director.
Web Site: www.nick-harris.co.uk
Twitter: @NickHarrisMedia
Apr 16, 2021
Paul Hayward began his career as a sports journalist at the Racing Post before moving to The Independent to become racing correspondent. He then branched into general sport and became Chief Sports’ Writer at the Telegraph before occupying the same position at The Guardian, Mail and The Observer. During that time, he was named Sports’ Writer of the Year in 2002 and 2003 at the British Press Awards and Best Football Writer at the Sky Sports Awards in 1997, 1999 and 2001.
Hayward returned to The Guardian and its sister paper The Observer in 2009 as a senior sportswriter, predominantly covering football, until he re-joined The Telegraph in 2011, again as its chief sportswriter. He took time off from writing in 2015 to undergo cancer treatment but recovered in time to cover the 2015 Rugby World Cup. Paul has also been named Sports’ Writer of the Year at the SJA British Sports Journalism awards in 1996, 2012, 2015, 2016 and 2018. He co-wrote autobiographies with Sir Alex Ferguson, Sir Bobby Robson and Michael Owen. He wrote a landmark 150-year biography of the England men’s football team (1872-2022) for Simon & Schuster and recently co-wrote Kevin Sinfield’s autobiography ‘The Extra Mile’ for Penguin Random House.
Twitter: @_PaulHayward
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