Christopher Sandford

Christopher Sandford (born 1 July 1956) He was educated at Radley College and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, where he obtained a master's degree in history in 1977. He began his career as a journalist in London that same year. His book The Final Innings: The Cricketers of Summer 1939 was joint winner of The Cricket Society/MCC Book of the Year award for 2020. Of The Final Innings, Alex Massie said in Wisden that "Sandford captures the shadows lengthening over cricket – and everything else – in late-1930s England."

Books

The Cornhill Centenary Test 1981 Feasting with Panthers 1983 (novel) Arcadian 1985 (novel) We Don't Do Dogs 1988 (novel) Godfrey Evans: A Biography 1990 Tom Graveney: The Biography 1992 Mick Jagger: Primitive Cool 1994 Bowie: Loving the Alien 1998 Sting: Demolition Man 1998 Springsteen: Point Blank 1999 Clapton: Edge of Darkness 1999 McQueen: The Biography 2001 Keith Richards: Satisfaction 2004 Paul McCartney 2006 Imran Khan: The Cricketer, the Celebrity, the Politician 2009 Polanski: A Biography 2009 Masters of Mystery: The Strange Friendship of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini 2011 The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years 2012 Kurt Cobain 2013 The Final Over: The Cricketers of Summer 1914 2015 Harold and Jack: The Remarkable Friendship of Prime Minister Macmillan and President Kennedy 2015 Mick Jagger: Rebel Knight 2016 The Man Who Would Be Sherlock: The Real Life Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle 2017 Union Jack: John F. Kennedy's Special Relationship with Great Britain 2018 Zeebrugge: The Greatest Raid of All 2018 The Final Innings: The Cricketers of Summer 1939 2019 Keeper of Style: John Murray: The King of Lord's 2019 Victor Lustig: The Man Who Conned the World 2021 Laker and Lock: The Story of Cricket's "Spin Twins" 2022 1964: The Year the Swinging Sixties Began 2024 The Cricketers of 1945: Rising from the Ashes of World War Two 2024 1976: The Year that Scorched 2025