Richard Askwith Explained
Richard Askwith |
Birth Date: | 1960 |
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Notableworks: | Feet in the Clouds |
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Richard Askwith is a British journalist and author. He is best-known for the cult 2004 fell running book Feet in the Clouds, which won him the Best New Writer prize at the Sports Book Awards. The book was also shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year and the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature.
Askwith's book Unbreakable about Lata Brandisová was voted Biography of the Year at the Sports Book Awards in 2020.
Bibliography
- Book: . 2004 . Aurum Press. [1]
- Book: The Lost Village: In Search of a Forgotten Rural England . 2008 . Ebury Press. [2]
- Book: Let IT Go: My Extraordinary Story, from Refugee to Entrepreneur to Philanthropist . 2012 . Andrews UK. [3] (co-written with Stephanie Shirley)
- Book: Running Free: A Runner's Journey Back to Nature . 2014 . Yellow Jersey Press. [4]
- Book: Today We Die a Little: Emil Zátopek, Olympic Legend to Cold War Hero. 21 April 2016. Random House. 9781473524088. Google Books. Author's note
- Book: People Power: Remaking Parliament for the Populist Age . 2018 . Biteback Publishing. [5]
- Book: Unbreakable: the countess, the Nazis and the world's most dangerous horse race . 2019 . Yellow Jersey Press. [6]
- Book: Toymaker: the autobiography of the man whose designs shaped our childhoods . 2021. [7] (co-written with Tom Karen)
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Feet in the clouds: a tale of fell-running and obsession . . 16 July 2020.
- Web site: The Lost Village: In Search of a Forgotten Rural England . . 16 July 2020.
- Web site: Let IT go . . 8 October 2022.
- Web site: Running Free: A Runner's Journey Back to Nature . . 16 July 2020.
- Web site: People Power: Remaking Parliament for the Populist Age . . 16 July 2020.
- Web site: Unbreakable . . 16 July 2020.
- Web site: Toymaker: the autobiography of the man whose designs shaped our childhoods . . 8 October 2022.