Our authors
We are an independent publishing house specialising in sports literature.
Alan Frazer
Alan Frazer has been one of Fleet Street’s leading sports writers for many years, gracing the pages of The Independent and the Daily Mail among others. Golf has been a passion and a speciality. Alan has covered all four golf majors, including every Open Championship between 1978 and 2014. He also attended and reported on the last six summer Olympic Games at Barcelona, Atlanta, Sydney, Athens, Beijing and London. His book, The Hitler Trophy, tells the story of Hitler’s golf competition at the notorious 1936 Olympic Games.
Andy Hamilton
Andy Hamilton is one of the country’s top comedy writers and stand-ups, who has also written two novels. His credits include such TV comedy classics as Not the Nine O’Clock News and Alas Smith & Jones and, with Guy Jenkin, Drop the Dead Donkey and Outnumbered. He also wrote the football comedy Eleven Men Against Eleven and regularly appears on the long-running hit BBC show Have I Got News for You.
Darren Barker
Darren Barker was a Commonwealth Games gold medallist in Manchester in 2002 before turning professional and winning the IBF World Middleweight title. He is now a boxing pundit for Sky Sports. His book, A Dazzling Darkness, tells his incredible story of overcoming adversity to become world champion.
David Winner
David Winner has written such classic football books as the William Hill-shortlistedBrilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football andThose Feet: A Sensual History of English Football. He also co-wrote a best-selling biography of Dennis Bergkamp. David’s versatility extends to writing on politics, penningThe Coming of the Greens, with Jonathon Porritt, and a travel book,Al Dente: Madness, Beauty and the Food of Rome.
Ian Ridley
Ian Ridley has penned 13 sports books, includingAddicted, with former Arsenal and England captain Tony Adams, which was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. Three of his other books were nominated in the British Sports Book Awards and his most recent,The Breath of Sadness, was also shortlisted for the William Hill award. In a 40-year career, Ian has been a sports writer at various times with four national newspapers.
Jane Purdon
Jane Purdon has a unique story to tell. A fan and a player, she has worked for more than 20 years at the highest levels of football. Nobody is better placed to tell the in-depth story of how football came home in the summer of 2022. An activist and thought leader, Jane is often called on to comment on football. She was recently awarded a distinction for her Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, and her writing has achieved competition success.
John Moynihan
John Moynihan was a much-loved and highly respected author and football writer, chiefly for the Sunday Telegraph, for many years until his death in 2012, aged 79. His book, The Soccer Syndrome, is widely considered a classic of football literature.
Julie Welch
Julie Welch is an award-winning author and journalist who was the first woman to report on football for a national newspaper, theObserver. Her work includes the filmThose Glory, Glory Days, the hardback best-sellerThe Ghost of White Hart Lane andThe Fleet Street Girls. Her last book,81: The Year That Changed Our Lives, co-written with Spurs legend Steve Perryman, was shortlisted for the Sunday Times British Sports Book Awards 2023.
Mark Halsey
Mark Halsey was the longest-serving full-time professional referee in the English game when he retired at the end of the 2012/13 season after a career that took in three seasons officiating in the Football League and a remarkable 14 in the Premier League. He is now a refereeing pundit with the BT Sport TV channels. His book, Added Time, details his powerful and poignant story. It was shortlisted for Best Autobiography at the 2014 British Sport Book Awards.
Neil Beasley
Neil Beasley is a player with, and chairman of, Birmingham Blaze, National Gay Football Supporters Network League champions. His book, Football’s Coming Out, tells of his struggles to play the game he loves without prejudice. It was longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year.
Seth Burkett
Seth Burkett grew up in Stamford, Lincolnshire. Aged 18 he moved to Brazil to play professional football. His first book, The Boy in Brazil, documents a remarkable season in Sorriso and was shortlisted for the 2015 British Sport Book Awards.
Since then, Seth has written 15 books for adults and children under his own name, and has also co-written multiple books with athletes, influencers and personalities.
Shekhar Bhatia
Shekhar Bhatia has worked forThe Observer,Sunday Mirror,Daily Express andEvening Standard, and was chief reporter and showbusiness editor of theSunday Express. He has also helped produce TV documentaries forPanorama,Dispatches and NBC in the USA. His book on the murder of Anni Dewani was the first published by Mirror Books. He has won the Asian Media Awards’ Journalist of the Year and is now part of Mail Online’s global reporting team.
Susie Petruccelli
Susie works with the Sport for Development organisation and a number of leaders in the movement for equality and safety in sports such as Billie Jean King and global Non-Governmental Organisations including the Women’s Sports Foundation, UN Women, Coaches Across Continents, The Equality League, The Global Goals World Cup, and the Equal Playing Field Initiative. In 2019 she won the Vikki Orvice prize, her proposal for Raised a Warrior impressing a five-person judging panel. Susie lives in New York with her husband, also a former Harvard soccer player and US youth national team player, their three children, and their dog, Otis.