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Martin Hannan
Martin Hannan describes himself as having the soul of a poet trapped in the body of a rugby forward. He is an award-winning sportswriter (BT Scottish and UK Sports Journalist of the Year 2000) who turned to sport in 1998 after a varied career in journalism and public relations.
He has had two plays produced in Scotland and originated the Robert Burns film which has been in development hell since 1999. Nothing daunted, he is currently working on two more film projects.
Glasgow-born he lives in Edinburgh with his wife Isabel, a.k.a. The Living Saint, and two children. Author of Rock of Gibraltar - about the famous horse - and co-author of Twentieth Century Scotland: A Pictorial History (with Donald MacLeod), Hannan is currently ghosting the memoirs of both Hibernian FC legend Eddie Turnbull and Celtic captain Neil Lennon.
Books by Martin Hannan
Neil Lennon: Man and Bhoy
The captain of Celtic and former captain of Northern Ireland – albeit only for a few hours – is one of the most controversial figures in British football.
As he approaches the end of his playing career, Neil Lennon has decided to tell all about his life in a book that will shock football to its core.
Fiery and combatant on-field – off-field highly intelligent and articulate – Lennon will assail the religious bigotry which has soured his time in Scotland. The first Northern Irish Roman Catholic to play for Celtic and be chosen to captain his country, Lennon was forced to dramatically quit that captaincy before he even took the field after death threats were made against him by Loyalist paramilitaries. For the first time, he will give his version of the events which sickened world football and led him to quit the international stage.
World Rights: HarperSport
Eddie Turnbull: Having a Ball
With Eddie Turnbull
As the first British player to score a goal in European club competition in 1955, Hibs hero Eddie Turnbull holds a unique place in footballing history. In Eddie Turnbull: Having a Ball, he charts his extraordinary career and tells the story of his eventful life so far.
After his playing career ended, Turnbull achieved lasting fame as manager of Aberdeen and his beloved Hibs. ‘Turnbull’s Tornadoes’ beat Jock Stein’s Celtic side to lift the Scottish League in season 1972–73 and won the Drybrough Cup twice, in 1972 and 1973. During his decade with Hibs, Turnbull also managed George Best, and here he tells all about his turbulent time with the late great legend.
In this engrossing memoir, Turnbull candidly explains why he walked away from football in 1980, recounts many entertaining behind-the-scenes stories and gives his diagnoses of the ills of the modern game.
‘Compelling and thoroughly entertaining’
Edinburgh Evening News
‘Hannan is a writer of such skill that, although the bulk of Turnbull’s footballing life took place in a remote era, much of the material is appetising and relevant’
Patrick Barclay, Sunday Telegraph
World Rights: Mainstream
