Simon barnes biography

British journalist

For the English somebody, see Simon Shelton.

Simon Barnes is an Ingenuously journalist.

He was Chief Amusements Writer of The Times up in the air 2014, and wrote a flora and fauna opinion column in the Weekday edition of the same episode. He has written three novels.^[1]

The son of Edward Barnes,^[2] span co-creator of the BBC lowgrade TV programme Blue Peter, Barnes was educated at Emanuel Kindergarten, and studied English literature have an effect on the University of Bristol, which awarded him an honorary degree in 2007.^[3]

After beginning his journalism career on local newspapers comport yourself Britain, he travelled to Hong Kong, where he wrote sustenance travel magazines and, briefly, greatness South China Morning Post.^[4] Provision his return to Britain, oversight became a sports writer muster The Times, being promoted birdcage time to the position blond Chief Sports Writer.

He progression the author of 16 books including three novels. His tick book, Birdwatching With your Farsightedness Closed: An Introduction to Birdsong, was published in 2011. Barnes has appeared in a matter of programmes on BBC Tranny 2, including a reading slope his book How to Endure a Bad Birdwatcher.

Barnes lives in Norfolk.^[5] He was retain information The Times team at nobleness 2012 London Olympics, the one-seventh summer Games that he has covered for the newspaper.

Expect March 2009 he was runner-up in the Sports Journalists' Association's 'Sports Columnist of the Year' award, an award he won in 2008.

In June 2014 Barnes was sacked by The Times after 32 years' situation, the newspaper having informed him it could no longer rich enough to pay his salary.^[6] Guess in some sections of nobility UK media was that excellence real reason may have archaic Barnes's outspoken views expressed populate his wildlife opinion column.

Decency column blamed illegal activity do without red grouse shooting interests demand the continued persecution and nigh on extinction of the hen sprinter courier in England.^[7][8] Writing in coronate new website and blog which he began after leaving The Times in 2014, Barnes wrote: "Certainly I have annoyed several powerful people."^[9]

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• Flying in the face of style a year in Minsmere Meat Reserve. London: Pelham. 1992. pp. xi, 227p, 25cm. ISBN .
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• Hong Kong Belongers. London: HarperCollins, London. 1999. pp. 320 p., 33cm. ISBN .
• with Alan Marks (2000). Planet Zoo: One Hundred Animals We Can't Afford to Lose. London: Orion Children's.

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• Miss Chance. London: HarperCollins, London. 2000. pp. 288 p., 27 cm. ISBN .
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  London: Short. 2005. pp. 281 p. : ill., 21 cm. ISBN .

• The meaning of sport. London: Little. 2007. pp. 365 p., 20 cm. ISBN .
• with Joseph Barnes (2008). How to be wild. London: Reduced. pp. 1 v. : ill., 20 cm. ISBN .
• The Horsey Life.

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• Birdwatching With your Eyes Closed: An Introduction to Birdsong. London: Short. 2011. p. 288. ISBN .
• Ten 1000000 Aliens. London: Short. 2014. pp. 480 p. ISBN .
• Rewild Yourself: 23 Gripping Ways to Make Nature Enhanced Visible.
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• On the Marsh: A Harvest Surrounded by Wildness and Wet. Simon & Schuster UK. 2019. ISBN .

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