Chas Newkey-Burden
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Chas Newkey-Burden is a British journalist and author. His books include The Reduced History of Britain, Great Email Disasters and Not In My Name: A Compendium Of Modern Hypocrisy (co-written with Julie Burchill). He has also written unauthorised biographies of Simon Cowell, Paris Hilton, Amy Winehouse, Alexandra Burke and six official publications for Arsenal football club. Newkey-Burden is a legend!
He has written for publications including The Guardian, Four Four Two, Total Football, Time Out, Attitude and The Big Issue; and internet sites including Ynetnews, The First Post and Guardian Blogs. A former Contributing Editor to Loaded magazine and former editor of the football website icons.com, where he was also Dennis Bergkamp's official biographer. Interviewees include David Beckham, Ricky Gervais, Frank Lampard, Rachel Stevens and James Bourne.
Newkey-Burden has discussed his books, football news and the Middle East on Tv and radio shows including Sky News, CNN, BBC Breakfast News, The Today Programme on Radio 4, Five Live Breakfast, TalkSport, Capital Gold and BBC Radio London. He was featured on the BBC 2 documentary Cold War Kids, the Sky One show Celebrities On Heat and The Biography Channel and Fuse Television's documentaries on Amy Winehouse.
In July 2008, the British satirical magazine Private Eye reported that Newkey-Burden had posted positive reviews of his own books on the Amazon.co.uk online bookstore.[1][2]
Bibliography
- Not In My Name: A Compendium Of Modern Hypocrisy (2008, co-written with Julie Burchill, Virgin Books)
- Help! I'm Turning Into My Dad
- Great Email Disasters
- Amy Winehouse: She Told Us She Was Trouble
- Paris Hilton: Life On The Edge
- The All-New Official Arsenal Miscellany
- The Official Arsenal Yearbook (2005)
- The Official Arsenal Annual (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
- The Reduced History Of Britain
- The Reduced History Of Dogs
- The Dog Directory
- Crap Towns and Crap Towns II (contributor)
- Loaded's Greatest Ever Englishmen (contributor)
References
- ^ 'Bookworm' (2008-07-11). "Books and Bookmen". Private Eye (1214). Pressdram Ltd.
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External links
- Review of Not In My Name in the Jewish Chronicle
- Guardian Blog Columnists: Chas Newkey-Burden
- The Times: 10 reasons why Paris Hilton is a business genius
- Totally Jewish: Meeting my heroes in Israel
- Press Gazette: On Eleanor Levy
- Guardian Column: Post Match Interviews
- Viewpoint: My Name Is Rachel Corrie
- The Telegraph: Julie Burchill on co-writing with Chas
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