Matt Allen

Author

Agent: Rory Scarfe

Matt Allen is an award-winning author, ghost-writer and music and sports journalist. He has co-authored several Sunday Times bestsellers including the 2019 number one, Battle Scars with former special forces soldier, Jason Fox, Faster Than Lightning with Usain Bolt, and How Not To Be A Professional Footballer with Paul Merson (shortlisted in the 2012 Best Biography at the British Sports Book of the Year Awards).

In 2020 he released By Order Of The Peaky Blinders: The Official Companion To The Hit TV Series and worked with world record-breaking mountain climber, Nimsdai Purja on his autobiography, Beyond Possible. Formerly the features editor at Q magazine and associate editor at FourFourTwo , Matt is also an official writer for the International Olympic Committee.