Alison Kervin's novels became an instant hit when she launched Wag's Diary in 2007, followed by A Wag Abroad in 2008 and Celebrity Bride in 2009. Now she has Wags At The World Cup on the shelves - a funny, lively, colourful novel about the crazy exploits of super-Wag Tracie Martin as she meets the England Wags in South Africa and causes mayhem in a pink, sparkly bikini and terrifyingly high Louboutins!!
More about Alison... Alison Kervin a is an award-winning journalist, biographer and novelist. She has written 11 books, has been a magazine editor, magazine publisher and chief sports feature writer of both The Times and the Daily Telegraph. She won the Woman of Achievement Award for sport in Cosmopolitan magazine and has previously won Feature Writer of the Year, Interviewer of the Year and Magazine Editor of the Year. She was the first female presenter on Rugby Special, the first woman to referee at Twickenham, and has written short stories, columns and interviews for publications as diverse as The Spectator, New Statesman, Company, Woman's Own, Vogue, New York Times, Sydney Morning Herald, That's Life, You magazine, The Mail on Sunday, Country Life and Tatler.
Alison's most recent novel was Wags At The World Cup which came out June 2010, which follows the crazy exploits of Tracie Martin, a Wonder Wag, as she heads out to the World Cup and suffers all manner of mishaps and catastrophes. Her most recent non-fiction book was Raging Bull, the autobiography of England prop, Phil Vickery, which came out in October 2010.
Her previous novel was Celebrity Bride, June 2009. The book is about a beautiful girl who meets and falls in love with a Hollywood superstar and becomes entangled in a bitter-sweet life in which she is hounded by the media, has girls throwing themselves at her boyfriend, and ends up being arrested for murder after an unfortunate incident with a Parisian stylist. It's a comedy with a dark twist in the middle!
Alison has also written A Wag Abroad, which came out in August 2008, following the huge success of Wag's Diary which hit the shelves in October 2007. The two novels are about super-Wag Tracie Martin and her extraordinary adventures with raccoon hair extensions and quilted Chanel bags. The second book in the series follows Tracie as she moves to Los Angeles and tries to befriend Posh Spice and introduce the locals to her unique brand of Wag styling. Wag's Diary became an instant best-seller and was cover-mounted onto Glamour magazine where it reached an additional 750,000 readers.
Alison also has a rugby book on the shelves - Thirty Bullies - a social history of the rugby World Cup which looks at all the previously untold stories of life behind the scenes with the players at the tournaments. The paperback came out in January 2009 to a massive serialisation and stunning reviews.
Alison started her writing career in sport. She was the Rugby Editor then the Chief Sports Feature Writer of The Times newspaper where she wrote a weekly interview - The Kervin Interview - for three years, featuring stars ranging from Nick Faldo and Michael Owen to Prince Edward and Sean Connery. She moved on to become the Chief Interviewer of The Daily Telegraph, interviewing Lewis Hamilton, Eric Cantona and Ian Botham, among others.
Alison has written nine highly acclaimed books - Denise Lewis: Personal Best, Jason Leonard: The Autobiography, Sports Writing, the Unofficial Guide to the Rugby World Cup, Clive Woodward: the biography and Thirty Bullies as well as the three novels. Her tenth book will hit the shops in 2010. She has also ghost-written a number of columns for The Times , including that of Jonny Wilkinson as he rose to glory in the 2003 World Cup, Kyran Bracken, Will Greenwood, Graeme LeSaux Jack Rowell and Tim Rodber.
Before working on newspapers, Alison was editor of Rugby World - the biggest-selling rugby magazine in the world. She has also worked as publisher of Rugby World, Golf Monthly and Women & Golf .
Alison worked for the Rugby Football Union as the public relations manager of the England team and also holds coaching qualifications in 10 sports, and sits on numerous judging panels including the BAFTAS, BBC Sports Personality of the Year, Laureus International Sports Awards and the Magazine Journalist and Sports Journalist of the Year Awards.
WEBSITE: www.alisonkervin.co.uk
