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Caroline Taggart

Caroline Taggart is the author of four books for Michael O’Mara: the bestselling I Used To Know That:  stuff you forgot from school, My Grammar and I (or should that be ‘Me’?), A Classical Education:  the stuff you wish you’d been taught at school and An Apple a Day:  old-fashioned proverbs and why they still work.  She is also the editor of the 2009 and 2010 editions of Writer’s Market UK & Ireland: your guide to making money from your writing (David and Charles).  Caroline’s latest book, Her Ladyship’s Guide to the Queen’s English, was published in May 2010 as part of Anova's National Trust list.  Another title for Michael O’Mara, Answers to Rhetorical Questions, is due in autumn 2010.  She is currently writing a book on English place names for Ebury Press. (RW)

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Alex Wade

Alex Wade is the author of Wrecking Machine (Simon & Schuster, 2005) and Surf Nation (S&S, 2007). A former libel lawyer for Carter-Ruck, The Times, the News of the World and Richard Desmond, among others, he is a well-known freelance journalist, writing a weekly column for The Times on coastal life and contributing regularly to all the UK broadsheets (especially The Times, Guardian, Independent, Independent on Sunday, FT and Telegraph) as well as a number of magazines, of both specialist and general interest (Wade is a regular contributor to Coast magazine and is the arts editor for Cornwall Today magazine).

Wade was short-listed as Sports Feature Writer of the Year at the 2009 Sports Journalism Awards, and is also the editor and principal writer of professional services/media website www.spada.co.uk/swordplay. He writes book reviews for the TLS and Times Books and edits special supplements for The Guardian.(DL)

Simon Wells

Simon Wells has written on film and music for numerous magazine and newspapers including the Guardian and the Times. He is a regular contributor to Record Collector, Hotdog, TV Zone, Watch, Total Film, and The Beatles’ Book; the group’s official magazine. In addition to his writing credits, Simon has researched numerous projects for the likes of the BBC, Channel Four and Virgin, as well as broadcasting live on LBC and BBC radio on film and music.
 
Simon's most recent book is the best selling Charles Manson - Coming Down Fast published by Hodder & Stoughton (2009)
 
He also co-wrote Your Face Here- British Cult Movies Since the 1960 which was published in 2001 by Fourth Estate/Harper-Collins and was a critical success, entering the BBC’s “Top Ten Film Books of the Year" list. During the summer of 2003, Simon was asked to curate a month-long season of classic 1960’s cult movies at the National Film Theatre in London. Simon is the author of the hugely successful The Beatles: 365 Days published by Abrams/Time Warner; The Beatles in Japan, and The Rolling Stones: 365 Days published in November 2006 (DL)

Jeremy Whittle

Author and journalist, Jeremy Whittle is perhaps best-known for his coverage of the Tour de France and world cycling in The Times, Sunday Herald and other newspapers and magazines. Jeremy's most recent book, Bad Blood: The Secret Life of the Tour de France, was short-listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, 2008, and praised by, among others, The Daily Telegraph, GQ, The Independent and the New York Daily News. He lives in Sussex with his family. (DL)

Mark Woods

Mark Woods is a script writer and has worked with some of our best known TV personalities.  Now Chief Writer for Comic Relief, he recently accompanied a number of celebrities on their charity climb of Mount Kilimanjaro.  His first book for Crimson Publishing – Pregnancy for Men:  The Whole Nine Months - was published in May 2010 and featured in The Daily Mirror, as well as attracting a great deal of interest across press and radio.  He is currently writing the sequel.  He is the father of Stanley, age two, and lives with his wife in Wandsworth. (RW)

Simon Wilde

Simon Wilde has been the cricket correspondent of the Sunday Times since 1998 and before that was a general sports writer on The Times for 12 years. He was highly commended for his work in the British Sports Journalism awards in 2003. He is the author of six books and is one of only two authors to have been shortlisted for the William Hill sports book of the year on three occasions – for Ranjitsinhji: A Genius Rich and Strange (1990), Letting Rip: A History of Fast Bowling (1994) and Shane Warne: Portrait of a Flawed Genius (2007). He also wrote the autobiography of Graham Thorpe in 2005. (DL)

Jonathan Wilson

Jonathan Wilson's bestselling history of the evolution of football tactics, Inverting the Pyramid, was named Football Book of the Year by the National Sporting Club in 2008, and was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. His investigation into eastern European football, Behind the Curtain, was shortlisted for Football Book of the Year in 2006. A former football correspondent of the Financial Times, he now writes regularly for the Guardian, Independent, FourFourTwo and Champions in the UK, World Soccer King in Japan and The National in Abu Dhabi. His next book, The Anatomy of England: A History in Ten Matches was published in May 2010.  He lives in London. (DL)

Richard Wilson

Richard Wilson is a sports writer based in Glasgow. He spent 10 years at The Sunday Times Scotland as deputy sports editor then sports writer, winning the Jim Rodger Memorial Award for best young sports writer in 2002 and being named sports writer of the year at the Scottish Press Awards in 2003. He is now freelance, working regularly for the Independent on Sunday and the Sunday Herald, and is currently writing a book on the Old Firm, the darkly fascinating rivalry that dominates his city. (DL)