{"id":25249,"date":"2021-02-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/?p=25249"},"modified":"2021-02-26T10:34:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T10:34:21","slug":"meet-the-author-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2021\/02\/27\/meet-the-author-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Charlie Connelly<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Charlie Connelly is a bestselling author and award-winning broadcaster. His many books include Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round The Shipping Forecast, In Search of Elvis: A Journey To Find The Man Beneath The Jumpsuit and And Did Those Feet: Walking Through 2000 Years Of British And Irish History. Three of his books have featured as Radio 4\u2032s Book of the Week read by Martin Freeman, Stephen Mangan and Tom Goodman-Hill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Charlie was also a popular presenter on the BBC1 Holiday programme and co-presented the first three series of BBC Radio 4\u2032s Traveller\u2019s Tree with Fi Glover. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His book Gilbert: The Last Years of WG Grace was shortlisted for the 2016 MCC\/Cricket Society Book of the Year. The book he wrote with his friend Bernard Sumner, Chapter And Verse: New Order, Joy Division And Me was shortlisted for Book of the Year at the NME Awards, while his most recent co-writing project, Winner: A Racing Life with the champion jockey AP McCoy was shortlisted for Sports Autobiography of the Year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His book, Last Train to Hilversum, was published by Bloomsbury in 2019 and is followed by his latest work, The Channel, published in 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has written comedy scripts for BBC radio and RT\u00c9 radio in Ireland and made documentaries for BBC Radio 4 on subjects as diverse as the poetry of Noel Coward and the legendary cricket coach Alf Gover. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As our featured author, Charlie has kindly answered a few questions for us about books that have entertained and inspired him and his work as an author. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Interview-CC.pdf\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information about Charlie, his career and his books visit his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlieconnelly.com\/\">website <\/a>or follow him on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/charlieconnelly\">Twitter <\/a>or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/charlieconnellyauthor\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Untitled-design-15.jpg?resize=512%2C277\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25250\" width=\"512\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Untitled-design-15.jpg?resize=1024%2C554&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Untitled-design-15.jpg?resize=300%2C162&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Untitled-design-15.jpg?resize=768%2C416&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Untitled-design-15.jpg?resize=1200%2C649&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Untitled-design-15.jpg?w=1292&amp;ssl=1 1292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 85vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Connelly Charlie Connelly is a bestselling author and award-winning broadcaster. His many books include Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round The Shipping Forecast, In Search of Elvis: A Journey To Find The Man Beneath The Jumpsuit and And Did Those Feet: Walking Through 2000 Years Of British And Irish History. Three of his books &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2021\/02\/27\/meet-the-author-9\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Meet the Author&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[271],"tags":[6292,958,6818,4864,6294],"class_list":["post-25249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-well-being","tag-author","tag-books","tag-meet-the-author","tag-reading","tag-writer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25251,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25249\/revisions\/25251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}