Clive is an award-winning author of over 120 books for children and adults. These range from the serious, sporty, to the downright silly.

Clive has travelled through 70 countries, run a computer games company and taken part in all manner of sports from parachuting and gliding to Ultimate Frisbee.

His books have been shortlisted for the TES Information Book of the YEar and the British Book Awards as well as winning Smithsonian, Children’s Choice, NAPPA and PBS awards. Sir Ranulph Fiennes called his latest book on Explorers “An inspiration to all adventurers”.
The Guardian declared that his Kingfisher Book of Football “was worth a season’s training” and the Manchester Evening News labelled it “The classiest football book around”

You can find more information about Clive’s work at www.clivegifford.co.uk