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Rayleigh Grange

Meeting - Speaker - Neil Hanson

Event type: Meeting
Date: 2 June 2027
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Venue: The Grange Community Centre

The Ghost Writer - Neil Hanson is a successful author with 70 published books to his name.
As well as his own, much-acclaimed work, he’s also a “ghost writer”. His clients include household names - an American showbiz legend, England’s most legendary cricketer, a famous actor, one of Britain’s most decorated soldiers, an England football manager and a man who turned his family’s bakery into Britain’s biggest fast-food chain - but also many less celebrated men and women who have led extraordinary lives or achieved remarkable things.

Among many others, they include SAS men, fast-jet pilots, explorers and adventurers, a treasure diver, a kidnap negotiator, a notorious gangster, the first woman ever to qualify as a gamekeeper and deer-stalker, a leading surgeon and a spy.

 “The Ghostwriter” gives us privileged glimpses into the hidden worlds of Neil’s ghostwriting clients, including some very famous names and some ‘ordinary people achieving extraordinary things’, and also reveals the truth behind one of the most earth-shattering events of our times. It is revelatory and insightful, but also very, very funny.