Tony Hannan Author & Editor

Tony Hannan is a Yorkshire-born author whose other books include Underdogs: A Year in the Life of a Rugby League Town; Being Eddie Waring - the biography of the famous sports commentator; Tries and Prejudice - the story of England's first Muslim rugby international, Ikram Butt - and On Behalf of the Committee: A History of Northern Comedy. An ex-Press Association journalist, he is also a co-director of Scratching Shed, publisher of books on all aspects of northern English culture, and co-edits the monthly rugby league magazine Forty20.