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Malcolm Folley

Malcolm Folley is an award winning sports writer who has been Chief Sports Reporter for the Mail on Sunday since 1992. He has travelled the world reporting on football, tennis, Formula 1, rugby, boxing as well as covering some 10 Olympic games, summer and winter. He collaborated with Jason Robinson on his bestselling autobiography Finding my Feet, with Jonathan Edwards on A Time to Jump, with Ginger McCain on his autobiography From Red to Amber as well as Hana Mandlikova’s life story. In his own right Malcolm has also written Borg Versus McEnroe, a chronicle of the greatest rivalry in tennis history and Senna Versus Prost the explosive inside story of Formula 1’s deadliest feud.  (JGH)

 

Tom Fordyce

Tom Fordyce is the co-author of We Could Be Heroes (Macmillan, 2009) which he wrote with fellow BBC colleague Ben Dirs.  He has been a BBC interactive journalist since 2000. He authors text commentaries on cricket and tennis, also writing features on various other sports and blogging from a number of different events.  He also appeared on Mastermind with a specialist subject of King George IV and Caroline of Brunswick.  He won the Upton Classic Triathlon in July 2007.  He is a Sheffield Wednesday supporter.  (DL)

 

Daniel Friebe

Daniel Friebe is one of Britain's leading cycling journalists and, at 28, a youthful veteran of seven Tours de France. For the last four years Daniel has been the Features Editor of Procycling Magazine, widely regarded as the world's most authoritative English-language cycling magazine. In that role, Daniel's feature-writing and news reporting on a range of subjects – including the controversial topic of doping – has earned him an enviable reputation, as reflected by his frequent appearances on international radio and television as an expert pundit on cycling.  Most recently Daniel collaborated with cycling superstar Mark Cavendish on the best-selling Boy Racer - My Journey to Tour de France record breaker (Ebury Press).  (DL)

 

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Brendan Gallagher

Brendan Gallagher is the Daily Telegraph’s rugby union reporter but he also covers cycling and athletics. He has written numerous books including Sporting Supermen (Aurum Press) and recently co-authored Bradley Wiggins’ autobiography, In Pursuit of Glory, for Orion. (DL)

 

Kevin Garside

Kevin Garside is the Chief Sportswriter for The Telegraph having previously covered F1 for the paper for which he won Specialist Correspondent of the Year in 2008.  He has collaborated on two book projects to date: A Boy from Bolton: My Story - Amir Khan (Bloomsbury), and with Lou Macari on Football - My Life (Bantam Press) both of which received rave reviews. (DL)

 

Dr. Shimon Gibson

Dr. Shimon Gibson is arguably the finest field archaeologist living and working in Jerusalem today as well as having been responsible for more digs on the Temple Mount than any other. A senior associate fellow at the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem and an adjunct professor of archaeology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Shimon originally trained at University College, London. Apart from authoring hundreds of academic articles Shimon is a regular presenter on television programmes on biblical archaeology as well as the author of The Cave of John the Baptist and The Final Days of Jesus (Harper 1, 2009) which has, to date, been sold in eight languages around the world.  (JGH)

 

Robert Goodwin

Robert Goodwin is an expert in Spanish history and the author of Crossing the Continent (HarperCollins US, 2008) which traced the first ever exploration of the southern states of America and revealed that the man who could justly lay claim to having discovered this part of the promised land was not, as history has it, a Spanish nobleman, but an African slave, Esteban Dorantes. (RW)

 

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Tig Hague

Tig Hague's memoir, Zone 22, is the shocking true story of his struggle to survive the brutal, corrupt, almost medieval conditions of a prison camp in Putin's Russia.  Following his release, Tig has returned to his job in the City and lives in London with his partner and their daughter. (JGH)

 

Maurice Hamilton

Maurice Hamilton is an award-winning motor sport journalist who has covered more than 500 Grands Prix while working for the Independent, the Observer and The Guardian. He has contributed regularly on motor sport for BBC Radio 5 Live during the past 20 years, having played the role of commentator, summariser and presenter. Maurice has written 20 books on the subject, including Chequered Conflict - The Inside Story on two explosive F1 World Championships (Simon and Schuster), and most recently, Williams F1 - An Oral History (Ebury Press).

Maurice has also collaborated with Martin Brundle on Life at the Limit (Ebury Press), and Eddie Jordan on An Independent Man (Orion) as well as ghosting biographies for Damon Hill, Eddie Irvine and the Olympic gold medallist, Linford Christie. (DL)

 

Mark Hammond

Mark Hammond joined the Royal Marines in 1989. After specializing as a pilot, he flew Gazelle and Lynx helicopters for 3 Commando Brigade Air Squadron and, subsequently, 847 Naval Air Squadron. After a tour in America with the US Marine Corps flying Cobra attack helicopters, he now flies the Chinook HC2 on exchange with the RAF. He took part in the 2003 assault on IraqÂ’s Al-Fawr Peninsula and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in Afghanistan in 2006. His book, Immediate Response (Michael Joseph, 2009), is the gripping inside story of the Chinook squadrons at war for the first time. (DL)

 

Lance Hardy

Lance Hardy is a writer and television producer. He has worked at numerous sporting events around the world, including three World Cups and two Olympic Games. He co-authored the autobiography Bobby Dazzler (Orion) with Bobby George in 2006 and his first solo book Stokoe, Sunderland and ’73 (Orion) was published February 2010. He lives in south-west London. (DL)

 

Patty Harpenau

Patty Harpenau is an internationally renowned artist, writer, life coach and TV personality, Patty Harpenau has spent her life unearthing the world's oldest teachings and expressing them in words and on canvas. She studied psychology, kabbalah and metaphysics. She is a licensed Deepak Chopra meditation teacher and created The Life Foundation, where clients are trained in living their lives to the full. Her 17 books cover such diverse topics as spirituality, family life, health and food expertise. In the year since publication, The Life Codes (www.thelifecodes) has been sold into many languages; its sequel, The Heaven Codes, will be available soon.  Patty lives in Amsterdam.  (RW)

 

Ian Hawkey

Ian Hawkey is an authority on African football.  He grew up in Nigeria and spent his teenage years in Zimbabwe and Egypt.  He has been the International Football Correspondent for The Sunday Times since 2001 and his first book, Feet of the Chameleon (Portico, 2009) traces the development of football in Africa as South Africa prepares to host football’s next World Cup in 2010. (DL)

 

Paolo Hewitt

Paolo Hewitt is perhaps best known as a music journalist and he worked for Melody Maker and NME during the 1980s.  His childhood was spent in care homes - an experience he chronicled to great effect in his acclaimed memoir The Looked After Kid (Mainstream).  In the early 1990's Paolo gave up full-time journalism to write his first novel, Heaven's Promise. He has since written biographies of The Jam, Oasis, and Steve Marriott and has collaborated with Spurs’ player Martin Chivers on his autobiography, Big Chiv! to be published in October 2009. His most recent book was the best selling Paul Weller - the Changing Man (Bantam Press). He lives in London. (DL)

 

Oliver Holt

Oliver Holt  was appointed Chief Sports Writer on The Times from 2000-2002 before becoming Chief Sports Writer on The Daily Mirror in 2002, a post he holds to the present day. He has won the British Press Awards Sports Writer of the Year twice in 2005 and 2006, the What the Papers Say Sports Writer of the Year in 2005 and also Sports Columnist of the Year in 2008.  Oliver is a regular guest on Sky as well as BBC Radio and he has a weekly spot on This Morning.  He once returned a serve from Roscoe Tanner in the line of duty for the Liverpool Echo.

Recent books include:

If you're second you are nothing - Ferguson and Shankley (Macmillan 2006) as well as Made in Sheffield – My Story – Neil Warnock (Hodder & Stoughton 2007) and Left Field – A Footballer Apart – Graeme Le Saux (Harper Collins 2007) both of which were shortlisted for awards. He also collaborated with Stan Collymore on Stan: Tackling My Demons (Harper Collins 2005). (DL)