Nigel Farndale

Who is Nigel Farndale?

Nigel Farndale is a British author and journalist, known for his award-winning interviews and his bestselling novel The Blasphemer.

He has written six books: three novels, two biographies and a collection of interviews. His latest novel is The Road Between Us.

The Blasphemer was shortlisted for the 2010 Costa Book Awards and selected for the WH Smith Richard and Judy Bookclub.His biography Haw-Haw: The Tragedy of William and Margaret Joyce was published in 2005 and shortlisted for that year’s Whitbread Prize and James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

As a journalist he has written for various magazines and newspapers including The Observer, Sunday Times, Financial Times, Daily Telegraph and Spectator.

Farndale grew up in the Yorkshire Dales, was educated at Barnard Castle School, read philosophy for a master's degree at Durham University and worked as a farmer before becoming a journalist — he wrote an abusive letter to Auberon Waugh, who then asked him to write for Literary Review. After that he worked on Punch magazine and Country Life magazine before moving to the Sunday Telegraph, where he remained for eighteen years as a feature writer and columnist.