…a writer and broadcaster, and the Editor of Nutmeg magazine. He is the author of several books including Saturday, 3pm and The Silence of the Stands, shortlisted for the Sunday Times Football Book of the Year Award and longlisted for the William Hill Prize. Daniel is also a freelance podcast presenter and editor, and scriptwriter. In recent years he has written scripts for a range of clients from the BBC to the Scottish Football Association.
Daniel also writes on social history and travel, and his recent work, Food of the Cods: How Fish & Chips Made Britain was shortlisted for Fortnum & Mason and Food Writers’ Guild awards. His newest book, Sunday Best: Travels Through the Day of Rest was published by Harper North in April 2025.
He has written for most UK newspapers, presented history on television and regularly talked about social history and football on local and national radio. He also presents the When Saturday Comes podcast.
For more than 15 years, Daniel has delivered lectures, presentations, live performances and workshops. He has appeared in hundreds of venues from pubs to prisons and run workshops for attendees from primary kids to pensioners. From 2016 to 2018, he was a Writer-in-Residence for the Edinburgh Book Festival, and in 2019/20 and 2022/23, Daniel was a Writer-in-Residence in a Primary School. In 2025, he was Writer-in-Residence at a secondary school.
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