Norman Giller

Norman Giller (born 18 April 1940, Stepney, East End, London) is an English author, a sports historian and television scriptwriter, who in October 2015 had his 100th book published. His 101st book, July 30, 1966 Football's Longest Day, was published in 2016 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of England's World Cup final victory at Wembley.

With 121 books to his name, Giller is a prolific author who began as a Fleet Street journalist. He was chief football reporter with the Daily Express in London (1966–74, succeeding Clive Toye), and has been a freelance writer since leaving Fleet Street in 1974. He spent 14 years as a member of the This Is Your Life scriptwriting team, and devised several television series including Who's the Greatest? (ITV, 1980s), The Games of 48 and Over the Moon, Brian, with Brian Moore and Brian Clough (ITV 1990s), Petrolheads (BBC2 2006); he co-produced 63 editions of Stand and Deliver (Sky TV, 1990s), and was scriptwriter and co-producer with Top Gear director Brian Klein of more than 50 sports-based videos/DVDs.

His 100th book, published in October 2015, is an autobiography called Headlines Deadlines All My Life.

His 93rd book, Sir Henry Cooper A Hero for All Time, was published in June 2012, and before that he self-published Tottenham, The Glory-Glory Game, which he wrote with members of the Spurs Writers' Club, which he formed in 2011.

Book No 94 followed in December 2012. It is called Bobby Moore The Master, and tells the story of the former England football captain's life on and off the pitch.No 95 was Keys to Paradise, an adult novel in harness with first-time American novelist, Jeni Robbins.

The 96th book by Giller is Bill Nicholson Revisited, based on conversations over a span of more than 40 years with former Spurs manager Nicholson It was published in 2013. Book No 97, published in 2014, is a biography of former Northern Ireland skipper and, later, journalist Danny Blanchflower.

Giller's 82nd book was The Lane of Dreams, a complete history of the Tottenham Hotspur ground at White Hart Lane before the bulldozers move in. The book is introduced by Jimmy Greaves and Steve Perryman. It is a self-published book by Giller, who experimented by having the second-half written on line by Tottenham supporters. He had six books published in 2010, written in collaboration with his sports statistician son, Michael Giller, and sports agent Terry Baker: Jimmy Greaves At Seventy and The Golden Double,