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Neil Hanson
is the prolific and successful author of an acclaimed series of popular
histories - The Custom of the Sea, The Dreadful Judgement and The Confident Hope
of a Miracle. Critics around the world have hailed them as "astonishing",
"brilliant", "compelling", "gripping", "extraordinary", "marvellous", "superb",
"a triumph" and "a masterpiece". He has also written over forty other novels and non-fiction books, published
under a variety of different names, for as well as his own work, he is also a
ghostwriter. His clients have included a number of travellers and adventurers, a
treasure diver, a polar explorer, a round the world walker, a controversial
historian, an England football coach, the captains of the England rugby union
and Great Britain rugby league teams, an undercover investigator, an IRA
informer, two jet-pilots and several SAS men.
Along the highways, byways and frequent cul de sacs of a very chequered
career he has also been an Oxford graduate, a plasterer's mate, an ice-cream
salesman, a holiday camp redcoat, an art gallery director, and simultaneously, a
rugby league commentator and an art critic - a combination he's pretty confident
is unique. He's been the editor of the drinker's bible, The Good Beer Guide, and
the owner of the highest pub in Britain - within a week of taking it over his
locals had re-christened him 'Basil' after the well-known Torquay hotelier - and
has also found time to travel round the world twice, edit an assortment of
obscure magazines, make a couple of television films, write two screenplays, be
a radio broadcaster in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, and write for every
British national newspaper and for media around the world.
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An award winning after-dinner speaker, he has spoken at every type of
occasion - corporate events, conferences, festivals, luncheon clubs, sportsmen's
dinners and banquets - throughout the UK and in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne,
Perth, Auckland, Wellington, Dubai and New York. He has also made regular
appearances on television and radio in Britain, the USA, Australia and New
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