Robert Winder

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Books Bloody Foreigners, The Final Act Of Mr Shakespeare, Open Secrets, No Admission, The marriage of time and

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Robert Winder, formerly literary editor of The Independent for five years and Deputy Editor of Granta magazine during the late 1990s, is the author of Hell for Leather, a book about modern cricket, a book about British immigration, and also two novels ("Biographical Notes" 73) as well as many articles and book reviews in British periodicals. Winder is a team member of the Gaieties Cricket Club, whose chairman was Harold Pinter.

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Publications

Fiction

No Admission. Penguin Crime Fiction ser. Penguin Group (USA), 1990. (Paperback rpt.) ISBN 0-14-009324-9 (10) ISBN 978-0-14-009324-7 (13).

The Marriage of Time and Convenience. Fontana Press, 1988. ISBN 0-00-617588-0 (10). ISBN 978-0-00-617588-9 (13).

The Final Act of Mr. Shakespeare. Little, Brown, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4087-0206-2.

Non-fiction

Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain. Little, Brown, 2004. Abacus, 2005. ISBN 0-349-11566-4 (10). ISBN 978-0-349-11566-5 (13).

Hell for Leather: A Modern Cricket Journey. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1996. ISBN 0-575-06085-9 (10). ISBN 978-0-575-06085-2 (13).

The Little Wonder: The Remarkable History of Wisden. Wisden, 2013. ISBN 1408136260 (10). ISBN 978-1408136263 (13)

Poetry

Selected book reviews

"A Dying Game". New Statesman, 19 June 2000. ("Why would a cricketer commit suicide? Robert Winder reads the lives of three great former players and is bewildered by their self-absorption and petty obsessions.")

Selected editorials for Granta

Granta 58: Ambition. (Contents from the archive; Winder's "Editorial" is not available online.)

References

Robert Winder Wikipedia

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