Harry Pearson (journalist)

Harry Pearson (born 1961) is an English journalist and author, specialising in sport.

He has twice won The Cricket Society/MCC Book of the Year award: in 2011 for Slipless in Settle and in 2018 for Connie: The Marvellous Life of Learie Constantine.[1] Reviewing Slipless in Settle in Wisden, Gideon Haigh referred to Pearson as "an extremely funny writer who turns a phrase like a doosra".[2]

He has been a regular contributor to the monthly football magazine When Saturday Comes for 20 years and has also written a weekly column for The Guardian.[3][4]

Books
  • The Far Corner: A Mazy Dribble through North-East Football (1994)
  • North Country Fair: Travels among Racing Pigs and Giant Marrows (1996)
  • A Tall Man in a Low Land: Some Time among the Belgians (1998)
  • Around the World by Mouse (2005)
  • Achtung Schweinehund!: A Boy's Own Story of Imaginary Combat (2007)
  • Dribble!: The Unbelievable Football Encyclopaedia (2007)
  • Hound Dog Days: One Dog and His Man: A Story of North Country Life and Canine Contentment (2008)
  • Slipless in Settle: A Slow Turn around Northern Cricket (2010)
  • Conkers for Goalposts (2010; compiler)
  • Housekeepers, Shortlegs and Flemish String: Three Village Sports Clubs in Northumberland (2012)
  • The Trundlers: The Military Medium-Paced Story of Cricket's Most Invaluable Breed (2013)
  • Connie: The Life of Learie Constantine (2017)
  • The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman: A Bone-shaking Tour through Cycling's Flemish Heartlands (2019)
  • The Farther Corner: A Sentimental Return to North-East Football (2020)

References
  1. "The Cricket Society/MCC Book of the Year". The Cricket Society. Retrieved 9 July 2018.
  2. Gideon Haigh, "Cricket Books, 2010", Wisden 2011, p. 122.
  3. "Harry Pearson". David Higham. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  4. "Harry Pearson". When Saturday Comes. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
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