Stuart Brodkin

STUART BRODKIN is a veteran journalist and author whose novel The Hereafter is his eighth book.

His only previous novel, Battle Flags was a factional story of suffragette Emily Davison, who died from her injuries after an incident at the Epsom Derby in 1913. He also ghost-wrote Enter The Dragon, the autobiography of entrepreneur Theo Paphitis of Dragons’ Den fame.

Stuart has also written a number of sports books, including the recently published Man City 50 Memorable Matches and Rodders of Arabia about the nomadic racehorse trainer Rod Simpson.

Manchester-born Brodkin has worked as a journalist since he was 16, skipping university to work for local papers before joining the Kent Evening Post in Maidstone before making his way to Fleet Street, where he had long tenures at both the Daily Mirror and Daily Express. He also worked for the Racing Post and for the BBC on its flagship sports show, Grandstand.