Robert Winder

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.^[1]

Publications[edit]

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)
• The Last Wolf: The Hidden Springs Of Englishness. Little, Brown, 2017. ISBN 9781408707807

Poetry

• "Two O'clock, Putney Heath in August" – Poem © Robert Winder. In "Literature of the Gaieties", haroldpinter.org.

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.)

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

• "Biographical Notes". 69–73 in Harold Pinter: A Celebration. Introd. Richard Eyre. London: Faber and Faber, 2000. ISBN 0-571-20661-1 (10). ISBN 978-0-571-20661-2 (13).

External links[edit]

• "Robert Winder" – Meet the Author feature: Robert Winder on Bloody Foreigners (2004). (Audio file.)

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