Harry Pearson was born in 1961 in a village near Middlesbrough. He was educated by kindly Quakers. An early attempt to become a journalist foundered because his spelling wasn’t good enough. After many years working in jobs that required overalls or paper hats, his life was altered for ever by reading an article about Alan Foggan in the football magazine When Saturday Comes. Since then he has written seven books, including The Far Corner (shortlisted for the 1995 William Hill Sports Book of the Year); A Tall Man in a Low Land and Achtung Schweinehund!. Harry has written for When Saturday Comes for twenty years and for many years was a weekly columnist for the Guardian.
His book Slipless in Settle won the 2011 Cricket Society / MCC Book of the Year award, the Cricket Writers’ Club Book of the Year award and was also named Best Cricket Book at the 2011 British Sports Book Awards.
Harry’s most recent book is a biography of the West Indian cricketer Learie Constantine, Connie, which has been longlisted for the 2017 William Hill Sports Book of the Year. He is also working on a book about Flemish cycling.
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Connie
Born in rural Trinidad in 1901, Learie Constantine was the most dynamic all-round cricketer of his age when he played Test cricket for the West […]
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The Far Corner
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The Trundlers
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