Gavin Mortimer is an award-winning writer and historian. His latest book, The History of Football in 100 Objects, will be published by Serpent’s Tail later in 2012 and will be an informative, engaging and only mildly irreverent chronicle of the Beautiful Game.

Gavin is currently working on two books that will be published in 2013. The first, The Special Boat Squadron in World War II, will be a dramatic account of one of the world’s elite fighting forces, and the second is a history of Merrill’s Marauders, the American special forces unit that fought a guerrilla campaign against the Japanese in 1944. It will be published in the USA by Zenith.

Gavin has also optioned the rights to Stirling Men’s, his account of the SAS in WW2, to GK-TV in Hollywood and has been signed to act as a consultant when filming begins.

Among Gavin’s previous titles are The Great Swim, the story of the battle to become the first woman to swim the English Channel. Voted one of the best books of 2008 by The Sunday Times, The Great Swim was dramatised on BBC Radio 4.

In addition to his books, Gavin contributes articles to an eclectic range of publications and writes regularly on sport and current affairs for the online edition of The Week under the nom de plume Bill Mann.

If you have any questions concerning Gavin's work please contact his agent, Felicity Blunt, at felicity@Curtisbrown.co.uk, or alternatively contact Gavin direct via the link on this page.