Robert Winder


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, about modern cricket, the "provocatively titled" Bloody Foreigners: The Story of Immigration to Britain, and The Last Wolf: The Hidden Springs Of Englishness, 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.

Publications

Fiction

  • The Marriage of Time and Convenience. Fontana Press, 1988. /.
  • No Admission. Penguin Crime Fiction ser. Penguin Group, 1990. /.
  • 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..

    Poetry

  • – Poem © Robert Winder. In "Literature of the Gaieties", haroldpinter.org.

    Selected articles and book reviews

  • , The Independent, 9 June 1995.
  • , The Independent, 20 November 1999.
  • . New Statesman, 19 June 2000.
  • , The Guardian, 5 February 2012.
  • , The Guardian, 10 August 2024.
;Selected editorials for Granta
  • Granta 58: Ambition.