Stephen Chalke

Stephen Chalke (born Salisbury, Wiltshire, 1948) is an English author and publisher.

He has degrees in Drama, English and Philosophy, Mathematics and English Literature and has taught in adult, further and higher education. He combines writing and publishing with part-time university lecturing.

Through his private publishing firm Fairfield Books, he has written and published several highly acclaimed biographical and historical cricket books. His collaboration with the late Geoffrey Howard "At the Heart of English Cricket" won the 2002 Cricket Society Book of the Year Award, and he has twice won the Wisden Book of the Year award: in 2004 with "No Coward Soul" (his biography of Bob Appleyard, co-written with Derek Hodgson) and in 2008 with "Tom Cartwright - The Flame Still Burns". He also works for the Open University.

Publications

* "Runs in the Memory" (1997), Winner of the "Guardian Book of the Year"
* "Caught in the Memory" (1999)
* "One More Run" (2000) (with Bryan 'Bomber' Wells)
* "At the Heart of English Cricket" (2001) (with Geoffrey Howard), Winner of the Cricket Society Book of the Year
* "Guess My Story - The Life and Opinions of Keith Andrew, Cricketer" (2003)
* "No Coward Soul" (2003) (with Derek Hodgson), Winner of the Wisden Book of the Year
* "Ken Taylor - Drawn to Sport" (2006)
* "A Summer of Plenty - George Herbert Hirst in the Summer of 1906" (2006)
* "Tom Cartwright - The Flame Still Burns" (2007), Winner of the Wisden Book of the Year
* "Five Five Five - Holmes and Sutcliffe in 1932" (2007)