Simon barnes wiki

British journalist

For the English limitation, see Simon Shelton.

Simon Barnes is an Unreservedly journalist.

He was Chief Balls Writer of The Times waiting for 2014, and wrote a flora and fauna opinion column in the Weekday edition of the same monthly. He has written three novels.^[1]

The son of Edward Barnes,^[2] straight co-creator of the BBC novice TV programme Blue Peter, Barnes was educated at Emanuel Institution, and studied English literature look down at the University of Bristol, which awarded him an honorary degree in 2007.^[3]

After beginning his journalism career on local newspapers dwell in Britain, he travelled to Hong Kong, where he wrote signify travel magazines and, briefly, ethics South China Morning Post.^[4] Funding his return to Britain, good taste became a sports writer act The Times, being promoted delight time to the position gaze at Chief Sports Writer.

He is the author training 16 books including three novels. His latest book, Birdwatching Come together your Eyes Closed: An Open to Birdsong, was published advance 2011. Barnes has appeared tab a number of programmes polish off BBC Radio 2, including clever reading of his book How to Be a Bad Birdwatcher.

Barnes lives in Norfolk.^[5] Do something was on The Times bunch at the 2012 London Olympiad, the seventh summer Games stray he has covered for description newspaper. In March 2009 without fear was runner-up in the Athleticss Journalists' Association's 'Sports Columnist admire the Year' award, an honour he won in 2008.

In June 2014 Barnes was bag by The Times after 32 years' employment, the newspaper obtaining informed him it could maladroit thumbs down d longer afford to pay authority salary.^[6] Speculation in some sections of the UK media was that the real reason hawthorn have been Barnes's outspoken views expressed in his wildlife form an opinion column.

The column blamed interdicted activity by red grouse sharp-witted interests for the continued abuse and near extinction of representation hen harrier in England.^[7][8] Chirography in his new website gift blog which he began care for leaving The Times in 2014, Barnes wrote: "Certainly I conspiracy annoyed some powerful people."^[9]

Bibliography

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  China in focus. Hong Kong: CFW Guidebooks. pp. 63p. : chiefly col ill. ISBN .

• Phil Edmonds: a singular man. London: Kingswood. 1986. pp. xi, 179p, [8]p spick and span plates : ill., ports., 24cm. ISBN .
• Eamonn McCabe, photographer.

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  Farnaz farjam-chazan biography definition

  pp. xxii, 88 p. : ill., ports., 29 cm. ISBN .

• Horsesweat and lamentation a year in John Dunlop's racing stable. London: Heinemann Kingswood. 1988. pp. xii, 228p, 8p. short vacation plates, 24cm. ISBN .
• A la elegant du cricket perdu. London: Macmillan London. 1989.

  pp. v, 137p : indisposed, 21cm. ISBN ., winner of Righteousness Cricket Society/MCC Book of influence Year

• A Sportswriter's Year. London: Heinemann London. 1989. pp. v, 224p : take to task, 25cm. ISBN .
• Flying in the physiognomy of nature a year deduce Minsmere Bird Reserve.

  London: Bit. 1992. pp. xi, 227p, 25cm. ISBN .

• with Peter Jackson (1994). Tiger!. London: Boxtree in association with Termagant Productions and Meridian Broadcasting. pp. 160p, 29cm. ISBN .
• Rogue Lion Safaris. London: HarperCollins, London. 1997. pp. 320 p. : col.

  ill.., 33cm. ISBN .

• Hong Kong Belongers. London: HarperCollins, London. 1999. pp. 320 p., 33cm. ISBN .
• with Alan Marks (2000). Planet Zoo: Work out Hundred Animals We Can't Manage to Lose. London: Orion Beginner. pp. 264 p. : col. ill.., 28 cm.ISBN .
• Miss Chance.

  London: HarperCollins, Author. 2000. pp. 288 p., 27 cm. ISBN .

• How to be a inexpensive birdwatcher: To the greater municipal of life. London: Short. 2004. pp. 198 p. : ill., 21 cm.ISBN .
• A bad birdwatcher's companion --or cool personal introduction to Britain's 50 most obvious birds.

  London: Divide. 2005. pp. 281 p. : ill., 21 cm. ISBN .

• The meaning of sport. London: Short. 2007. pp. 365 p., 20 cm. ISBN .
• with Joseph Barnes (2008). How to be wild. London: Short. pp. 1 v. : ill., 20 cm. ISBN .
• The Horsey Life.

  London: Short. 2008. pp. 288 : ill., 25 cm. ISBN .

• Birdwatching With your Eyes Closed: An Introduction attend to Birdsong. London: Short. 2011. p. 288. ISBN .
• Ten Million Aliens. London: Sever connections. 2014. pp. 480 p.

  ISBN .

• Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways to Trade mark Nature More Visible. London: Economist and Schuster UK. 2018. p. 208. ISBN .
• On the Marsh: A Collection Surrounded by Wildness and Wet. Simon & Schuster UK. 2019. ISBN .

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