Chris Horrie

Chris Horrie is a journalist and writer specialising in investigative journalism, finance and profiles of major public figures.

As a freelance feature writer his work can be found in the following British newspapers: The Independent, Independent on Sunday, Evening Standard, Mail on Sunday, Observer, New Statesman, Guardian.

He has worked in many other roles in the media industry.

Horrie is also the author/co-author of many major books, usually concerning major media figures:

2009: True Blue – Strange Tales from a Tory Nation (with David Matthews). Publication in August 2009. Fourth Estate / Harper Collins.

2008: Chapters on Investigative Journalism and the Law; and a practical guide to the Freedom of Information Act for Investigative Journalists in second edition of Investigative Journalism: Context and Practice, Hugo de Burgh ed, London and New York: Routledge.

2008: What is Islam? (3rd edition) with first publication in Russian.

2007: Play It Again – tie-in book for the primetime BBC 1 television series of the same name. Harper Collins, March 2007.

2006: What is Islam? (third edition) commissioned for publication in spring 2007.

2005: ‘Stick it up your Punter’ (3rd edition) – Simon and Schuster (book continuously in print for fifteen years).

2004: What is Islam? (4th printing) – Virgin books. Editions in German, Dutch, Hebrew, Spanish, Arabic, French, Russian and Farsi.

2004: ‘Tabloid Nation’ – from the birth of the Daily Mirror to the death of the tabloid. Andre Deutsch.

2002: ‘Premiership’. Unauthorised business history of the Premier League. Simon and Schuster.

2000: ‘Citizen Greg’ - unauthorised biography of Greg Dyke. Simon and Schuster.

1999: 'Live TV'; January 1999. Simon & Schuster.

1999: ‘Stick it up your Punter: the rise and fall of the Sun’. Fully updated new edition. Simon & Schuster. Co-author.

1994: Fuzzy Monsters: fear and loathing at the BBC, Heinemann;

1992: Sick as a Parrot: the inside story of Tottenham Hotspur PLC take-over.

1990: Stick it up your Punter: the rise and fall of the Sun, Heinemann.

1990: What is Islam? (W.H. Allen/ The Observer; exclusive authorship). Now in third printing with German, French, Dutch, Arabic, Spanish, Italian and Hebrew editions.

1988: Disaster - the rise and fall of News on Sunday (Sphere paperbacks. Out of print).

Horre also works as a lecturer at Winchester University (and recently at the University of Westminster) where he has a reputation as a charismatic and amusing teacher.