For further information on a specific client, please contact the relevant agent, as denoted by the initials that appear at the foot of each entry.  If you do not see the name of a particular author here, and you think we may represent them, please email us at … .

Agents:
DL:      David Luxton (davidluxton@aol.com)
JH:      Jonathan Harris (jonathan@sportandartist.com)
RW:     Rebecca Winfield (rebecca.winfield@btopenworld.com)

 

 

CLIENTS

 

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Keith Arthur

Keith Arthur is best known as a presenter on Sky Sports’ Tight Lines angling programme and also as the presenter for TalkSport’s Fisherman’s Blues, the UK’s only national radio fishing show.  He has written several specialist angling titles since 1980 and has had his own column in Angling Times since 1990. He has fished in many countries for a wide variety of species of fish. His long-awaited memoir, Fishing – The Best Excuse for Loafing in the Countryside is published by Green Umbrella Publishing.  (DL)

 

Philippe Auclair

Philippe Auclair has been a correspondent with France Football for over a decade and is a prolific freelance journalist on both sides of the Channel. He is also Radio Monte Carlo’s main match commentator and English football analyst. Philippe lives in London and is the author of Cantona: The Rebel Who Would be King (Macmillan, 2009) and the forthcoming biography of Thierry Henry (Macmillan 2011).    (JGH)

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Rob Bagchi

Rob Bagchi has worked at the Guardian since 2002 as an editor and journalist on the sports desk and has a weekly  sports column. He has also written for The Times, the Independent and First Post. Rob is the author of four sports books,  including the Sunday Times’ sports bestseller, The Unforgiven – The Story  of Don Revie's Leeds United, published in 2002 and reissued in 2009,  Frank McLintock's autobiography True Grit (Headline, 2005)  Norman Whiteside's Determined (Headline, 2007). (DL)

 

Nicola Baird

Nicola Baird is a writer and environmental journalist. She co-authored Save Cash & Save the Planet (Collins, 2005) and her latest book, Homemade Kids, was published in July 2010 - see www.homemadekids.co.uk. She's written for the Observer, Independent, Guardian, Evening Standard and edited many magazines including Friends of the Earth's Earthmatters. She lives in London  in a solar PV-souped up Victorian terrace with two children, two hens, a dog and pet mice.  She has an MSc in Environmental Management from Wye College/UCL and regularly teaches at the London College of Communication. Also see her low carbon travel blog at http://aroundbritainnoplane.blogspot.com 

 

Guillem Balague

Guillem Balague is a key fixture in Sky Sports' coverage of Spanish football, appearing regularly both on live match coverage and on the weekly round-up show, Revista de La Liga. He is also the UK Correspondent for AS, the Madrid-based Spanish sports newspaper and El Larguero, Spain's most popular sports radio show, attracting some 1,5 million listeners.  His work appears regularly in The Times and in Champions magazine, where he writes a regular column on international football.  He is the author of the bestselling A Season on the Brink (Orion, 2006), an insider's account of Liverpool's 2004-05 Champions' League winning campaign, updated later with the 2006 FA Cup victory.

He has written or worked for The Observer, Talk Sport, BBC, Onda Cero radio, 442, World Soccer. (DL)

 

Sarah Banbery

Sarah Banbery.  After a career in international television, Sarah changed direction and became a freelance food writer and stylist. She has written for, amongst others, Waitrose Food Illustrated and Room magazine.  She is the author of numerous cookery books, including the forthcoming Healthy Eating for Kids and has also contributed to The Beekeeper’s Bible: Honey, Recipes and Other Home Uses (HarperCollins, 2010).  Sarah is available to provide support as a co-writer, ghost or editor on all food-related projects.  (DL/RW)

 

Patrick Barclay

Patrick Barclay is the Chief Football Commentator for The Times and a hugely respected voice in the game. Former Sports Journalist of the Year, he previously worked for The Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, and The Observer.   His latest book, Football - Bloody Hell! - The Biography of Alex Ferguson was published by Yellow Jersey (Random House) in October 2010 and has been widely praised as the best book yet on the subject with The Guardian naming it their book of the week.  In 2005 Patrick wrote the critically acclaimed, and extremely successful Mourinho - Anatomy of a Winner (Orion).  Barclay has travelled widely, covering seven World Cups, eight European Championships, and four African Nations Cups, Educated in Dundee and a lifelong supporter of Dundee FC.  He lives in London. (DL)

 

Mark Baxter

Mark Baxter is a late-comer to the world of publishing.  His first book, The Fashion of Football (Mainstream, 2004), which he co-wrote with Paolo Hewitt, was voted as one of just fifty top football books of all time by the magazine 442. His second book, The Mumper, also co-written with Paolo, was self-published and has recently been picked up for a film starring Bob Hoskins.  Orion have also bought the rights and both film and book will be released at the end of 2011.  Mark and Paolo are now collaborating on a book for Prestel to be called The A-Z Mod.  A life-long supporter of Milwall FC, Mark lives in London. (DL/RW)

 

Debbie Beckerman

Debbie Beckerman is one of our most sought after writers.  Formerly the publisher of Transworld’s sports list, Partridge Press, and responsible for a number of their bestsellers including autobiographies by Geoffrey Boycott and Brian Clough, Debbie now works with a wide range of authors.  She has been involved with a number of successful autobiographies by legends such as Ilya Nastase, Patrick Vieira and Brian Moore, whose recent autobiography, Beware of the Dog, won both the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award and a British Sports Book Award.  She has also acted as associate editor or writer on a variety of other titles including Jon Nicholson’s memoir, Living Without Emma, and health titles including Professor Lesley Regan’s Your Pregnancy Week by Week.  Debbie is currently working on a number of projects including two new books for Quadrille and a photographic book for publication next year.  (DL) 

Chris Bradshaw

Chris Bradshaw is a freelance writer and researcher. He is the author of The Times Cricket Quiz Book (2008), The Sun Darts Quiz Book (2007) and The Sun Soaps Quiz Book (2008) and is a regular contributor to Poker Magazine and the website Bluff Europe. (DL)

 

Rick Broadbent

Rick Broadbent is a sports writer for The Times, for whom he has covered the Olympics, the World Cup, the Champions League Final, The Ryder Cup, Wimbledon, Six Nations Rugby and a variety of motorsports. He has collaborated with motor-cycle legend Ron Haslam on his autobiography Rocket Men (Bantam Press) and Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson on Seize The Day (Hodder & Stoughton). He is also the sole author of three further books: The Big If - The Life and Death of Johnny Owen (Macmillan), Looking For Eric (Mainstream), and his latest, Ring of Fire - The Inside Story of Valentino Rossi and Moto GP which was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award (Bantam Press, July 2009).  (DL)

 

Melanie Bromley

Melanie Bromley is the West Coast Bureau Chief for US Weekly and her journalistic background includes regular contributions for most of the UK’s women’s magazine market.  She is currently working on her first novel.  (RW)

 

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Paul Carter

Paul Carter was a journalist on a number of national newspapers before taking over at the Sunday Sport.  More recently, he has ghosted several highly successful autobiographies including Behind Palace Doors by Major Colin Burgess (John Blake, 2007), The Crafty Cockney: The autobiography of Eric Bristow (Century, 2008) and The Last British Bullfighter:  The autobiography of Frank El Ingles Evans (Macmillan, 2009).  (RW)

 

Alice Castle

Alice Castle is a journalist and author.  She has worked as a features writer for The Daily Express, and currently contributes as a freelance writer for The Times.  Her debut novel, Chocolate Hearts, is a bestseller for her German publisher, Ullstein, under the title "Schokoherz".  She is presently working on a sequel, Chocolate Sauce.  (RW).

 

Anthony Clavane

Anthony Clavane was born in Leeds in 1960, a year before Don Revie became manager.  He started life as a history teacher and is now chief sports’ writer for The Sunday Mirror and a former regional journalist of the year.  His book Promised Land: Leeds United – The Team that Disappeared (Yellow Jersey, 2010) has been described by David Peace as "an absorbing, compelling and very personal history, and dissection, of Leeds, the city and the club."  Published in September 2010, it won the British Sports Book of the Year Award for best football book in May 2011.  He is currently writing his next book which will be published by Quercus. (DL)

 

Austin Collings

Austin Collings is a journalist and writer.  Most recently, he co-wrote the bestselling autobiography by The Fall’s Mark E Smith, Renegade (Viking, 2008) which received glowing reviews.  He is currently engaged in writing and producing his first feature film. (DL)

 

Mark Collings

Mark Collings is a journalist and author.  He has contributed to numerous newsapers and magazines, including The Guardian, Esquire, The Observer and Jack.  His most recent book, A Very British Coop:  Pigeon Racing from Blackpool to Sun City (Macmillan, 2007) has been option for film.  He is also the author of 100 Greatest Boxers of the Century and co-writer of Muhammad Ali: The Glory Years.  (DL)

 

D

 

Barry Davies MBE

Barry Davies MBE has one of the most recognisable faces and voices of British sports broadcasting. For over forty years he has guided audiences through some of the most compelling and controversial moments in televised sport and he is famous for his versatility. He has broadcast at a record 10 World Cup finals, 10 Summer Olympic Games, 7 Winter Olympics, 24 Wimbledons, is synonymous with The Boat Race and was the longest serving commentator on Match of The Day. Interesting, Very Interesting was published by Headline in 2007.  (JGH)

 

Ben Dirs

Ben Dirs has worked for the BBC Sports Website for six years and covers all sport from darts to football.  He writes a lot about boxing and loves cricket.  In 2007, he blogged his way around the rugby World Cup in a camper van with his BBC colleague, Tom Fordyce, and they subsequently collaborated on the highly acclaimed We Could be Heroes:  One Van, Two Blokes and Twelve World Championships (Macmillan, 2009).  His most recent book, again written in collaboration with Tom Fordyce, Karma Chameleons, was published in September 2010, and is the hilarious account of their search for happiness which sees them sampling life variously as monks, witches, avatars and much more besides. (DL)

 

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Sarah Edworthy

Sarah Edworthy has been a journalist since 1987 when she began reviewing fiction for The Times. After stints at the London Daily News and Harpers & Queen, she moved to the books pages of the Daily Telegraph, transferring to the sports pages in 1994. Freelance since 2005, she co-wrote The Daily Telegraph Formula One Years and El Macca: Four Years at Read Madrid with Steve McManaman.  More recently, Sarah co-wrote “My Championship Year” with Jenson Button which Orion published in December 2009.  Sarah is currently working with Paul and Rachel Chandler on their forthcoming autobiography for Mainstream. (DL/RW)

 

Frank Evans

Frank Evans is widely known as the last British bullfighter, the title of his recent autobiography, which he co-wrote with Paul Carter.  Evans grew up in post-war Britain, the son of a Salford butcher – a path he was expected to follow.  He first envisaged a life as a matador for himself after travelling to Spain for a friend’s wedding. Handed a copy of Suit of Lights, a Fifties autobiography by fellow British bullfighter Vincent Hitchcock, he realised that his nationality need not be a barrier to his entry into the world of los toros, and decided to make a go of it.  This remarkable autobiography has generated a Channel 4 documentary and interest from both film and theatre companies.  (RW)