Mark Hodkinson is an experienced journalist and author, having written for The Times for two decades, three years as a columnist. He has also contributed to The Observer, The Guardian, Word, FourFourTwo, GQ, Daily Mirror, and others.
He has published several acclaimed books, including ‘Blue Moon: Down Among the Dead Men with Manchester City’ (Penguin Random House) which is regularly cited as a football classic and ‘Believe in the Sign’, long listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year. His next football book is The Longest Winter – a Season with England’s Worst Ever Football Team.
Books in order of publication:
Wedding Present – 1990
Marianne Faithfull – 1991
Queen: The Early Years – 1995
Life At The Top: Season In The Premiership With Barnsley Fc – 1998
Blue Moon: Down Among the Dead Men with Manchester City – 1999
Life Sentence – 2001
believe in the sign – 2007
The Last Mad Surge Of Youth – 2009
The Overcoat Men: How Two Unsung Heroes Thwarted a Secret Plan to Kill Off a Football Club – 2019
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy – 2022
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