Ed Smith

Ed Smith is an author and journalist, and a former international cricketer who has represented England, Cambridge University, Kent and Middlesex. Ed Smith's previous books include PLAYING HARD BALL, ON AND OFF THE FIELD - the Wisden Book of the Year and shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year and The Cricket Society Book of the Year Award - and the critically acclaimed, WHAT SPORT TELLS US ABOUT LIFE. After retiring from cricket Ed Smith became a leader writer for The Times. He is now a features writer for THE TIMES, has a column in GQ and writes regularly for the SPECTATOR. In 2010 he wrote and presented a TV documentary for BBC1 and now appears regularly on the Today Programme. Ed Smith lives in London.

In LUCK, published by Bloomsbury in March 2012 in hardback and paperback, Ed Smith traces the history of the concepts of luck and fortune, destiny and fate, from the ancient Greeks to the present day - in religion, in banking, in politics - he argues that the question of luck versus skill is as pertinent today as it ever has been.