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In Praise of Hugh MacDonald...
I first met Hugh MacDonald in the summer of 2004 and knew immediately he would become an important person in my life. I had just started a job as a sportswriter at The Herald and Hugh was the deputy sports editor. I had been reading his Sat...
💥 Our first book in two years...
We’re publishing our first book in two years.
It’s unlike anything we’ve published before and I can’t wait to tell you about it…
In August 2024, we were at the brilliant charity Street Soccer interviewing their COO, Gerry Britton, for ....
The Ghosts of Craig Burley 👻
I am the ghost of Craig Burley.
Hang on, let me explain…
One of my first jobs in journalism was at The Sunday Times.
And one of my first tasks at the newspaper was to ghostwrite the column of the former Chelsea, Celtic and Scotland midfi...
I wrote a book that only a handful of people will ever read 📖
I’ve written a book that only a dozen people will read.
It’s my proudest achievement and you should do the same….
A few years ago, I started doing a family tree.
I found it incredibly tedious and abandoned it almost immediately.
It seem...
Everyone has a book inside them 📕
“Everyone has a book inside them, which is exactly where it should, I think, in most cases, remain.”
That line was Christopher Hitchens’, not mine…
Having published books for 15 years now, I wish I had a pound for every person who has tol...
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