Robert Winder is a British editor and writer. He was formerly literary editor of The Independent for five years and Deputy Editor of Granta magazine during the late 1990s, and is the author of books that include Hell for Leather (1996), about modern cricket, the “provocatively titled” Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain (2004), and The Last Wolf: The Hidden Springs Of Englishness (2017), in addition to three novels – No Admission, The Marriage of Time and Convenience and The Final Act of Mr. Shakespeare – as well as many articles and book reviews in British periodicals and newspapers.
Winder is a team member of the Gaieties Cricket Club, whose chairman was Harold Pinter.
Books in order of publication:
Novels
The Marriage of Time and Convenience. Fontana Press, 1988.
No Admission. Penguin Crime Fiction ser. Penguin Group (USA), 1990. (Paperback rpt.)
The Final Act of Mr. Shakespeare. Little, Brown, 2010.
Non-Fiction
Hell for Leather: A Modern Cricket Journey. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1996.
Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain. Little, Brown, 2004. Abacus, 2005.
The Little Wonder: The Remarkable History of Wisden. Wisden, 2013.
The Last Wolf: The Hidden Springs Of Englishness. Little, Brown, 2017.
Soft Power: The New Great Game. Little, Brown, 2021.
Three Rivers: The Extraordinary Waterways That Made Europe – 2025
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