Neil Robinson

Neil Robinson was born in Gateshead and grew up in Newcastle upon Tyne obsessed with books and sport. As MCC's Head of Heritage & Collections, his job involves, among other things, looking after the Ashes Urn. He has written widely about cricket and sporting heritage for a variety of publications and in 2015 published Long Shot Summer, a book about one of the most humiliating years in English cricket history. In 2025, Neil received the Howard Milton Award for Cricket Scholarship from the British Society for Sports History. His fiction writing covers very different ground. A lifelong lover of spy novels, he takes inspiration from thriller writers like Len Deighton, Eric Ambler and Adam Hall and seeks to create novels with a sense of place and character. Neil lives in south east London, where he spends his free time writing, cooking, hiking, enjoying the odd pint of real ale and following his beloved Gateshead Football Club