Richard Askwith
{{short description|British journalist and author}}
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Richard Askwith is a British journalist and author. He is best-known for the cult 2004 fell running book Feet in the Clouds, which won him the Best New Writer prize at the Sports Book Awards. The book was also shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year and the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature.
Askwith's book Unbreakable about Lata Brandisová was voted Biography of the Year at the Sports Book Awards in 2020.
Bibliography
- {{cite book |title=Feet in the Clouds |year=2004 |publisher=Aurum Press}}{{cite web |url=http://search.bl.uk/BLBNB:LSCOP-BNB:BLL01006897701 |title=Feet in the clouds: a tale of fell-running and obsession |website=British Library |access-date=16 July 2020}}
- {{cite book |title=The Lost Village: In Search of a Forgotten Rural England |year=2008 |publisher=Ebury Press}}{{cite web |url=http://search.bl.uk/BLBNB:LSCOP-BNB:BLL01013601472 |title=The Lost Village: In Search of a Forgotten Rural England |website=British Library |access-date=16 July 2020}}
- {{cite book |title=Let IT Go: My Extraordinary Story, from Refugee to Entrepreneur to Philanthropist |year=2012 |publisher=Andrews UK}}{{cite web |url=http://search.bl.uk/BLBNB:LSCOP-BNB:BLL01016216008 |title=Let IT go |website=British Library |access-date=8 October 2022}} (co-written with Stephanie Shirley)
- {{cite book |title=Running Free: A Runner's Journey Back to Nature |year=2014 |publisher=Yellow Jersey Press}}{{cite web |url=http://search.bl.uk/BLBNB:LSCOP-BNB:BLL01016584369 |title=Running Free: A Runner's Journey Back to Nature |website=British Library |access-date=16 July 2020}}
- {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4gKECwAAQBAJ&q=%C5%A4opek&pg=PT114|title=Today We Die a Little: Emil Zátopek, Olympic Legend to Cold War Hero|date=21 April 2016|publisher=Random House|isbn=9781473524088|via=Google Books}} [https://richardaskwith.co.uk/books/emil-zatopek-olympic-legend-to-cold-war-hero/ Author's note]
- {{cite book |title=People Power: Remaking Parliament for the Populist Age |year=2018 |publisher=Biteback Publishing}}{{cite web |url=http://search.bl.uk/BLBNB:LSCOP-BNB:BLL01018652065 |title=People Power: Remaking Parliament for the Populist Age |website=British Library |access-date=16 July 2020}}
- {{cite book |title=Unbreakable: the countess, the Nazis and the world's most dangerous horse race |year=2019 |publisher=Yellow Jersey Press}}{{cite web |url=http://search.bl.uk/BLBNB:LSCOP-BNB:BLL01019211633 |title=Unbreakable |website=British Library |access-date=16 July 2020}}
- {{cite book |title=Toymaker: the autobiography of the man whose designs shaped our childhoods |year=2021}}{{cite web |url=http://search.bl.uk/BLBNB:LSCOP-BNB:BLL01020181343 |title=Toymaker: the autobiography of the man whose designs shaped our childhoods |website=British Library |access-date=8 October 2022}} (co-written with Tom Karen)
References
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{{cite web |url=https://richardaskwith.co.uk/about/ |title=About |website=Richard Askwith |access-date=16 July 2020}}
{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/feet-in-the-clouds-by-richard-askwith-50932.html |title=Feet in the Clouds by Richard Askwith |work=The Independent |access-date=16 July 2020 |first=Mike |last=Higgins |date=6 February 2005}}
{{cite news |url=https://richardaskwith.co.uk/books/feet-in-the-clouds/sunday-times-20-june-2004/ |title=Review of Feet in the Clouds |work=The Sunday Times |access-date=16 July 2020 |first=Frank |last=Graham |date=20 June 2004}}
{{cite news |url=https://richardaskwith.co.uk/books/feet-in-the-clouds/observer-sport-monthly-fellrunning-article/ |title=The Joy Of Pain |work=The Observer |access-date=16 July 2020 |first=Richard |last=Askwith |date=8 August 2004}}
{{cite web |url=https://sportsbookawards.com/award/biography-of-the-year-2020/ |title=Biography of the Year 2020 |website=Sports Book Awards |access-date=16 July 2020}}
{{cite web |url=https://www.waterstones.com/category/cultural-highlights/book-awards/the-sports-book-awards |title=The Telegraph Sports Book Awards 2020 |website=Waterstones |access-date=16 July 2020}}
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External links
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- [https://richardaskwith.co.uk Richard Askwith website]
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