About the author

DAVID BOULTON is an award-winning author, journalist and broadcaster. A former Editor of the international investigative programme World in Action and Head of News, Arts and Current Affairs at Granada Television, UK, he received the Royal Television Society’s special award ‘for outstanding services to broadcasting’.

He is the author of more than 20 books on contemporary history and current affairs, including the international best-seller The Lockheed Papers (in the USA The Grease Machine) exposing corporate bribery in the aerospace industry, and Objection Overruled, the classic account of conscientious objection in the first world war.

David is a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), the British Humanist Association, and the Sea of Faith Network, whose journal he edited for ten years. He has written for The Guardian, The Observer, New Internationalist, New Humanist, and many Quaker journals. His books on the interface between religion and humanism include The Trouble with God: Building the Republic of Heaven, Gerrard Winstanley and the Republic of Heaven, and Real Like the Daisies or Real Like I Love You?

He is a frequent keynote speaker and  workshop leader in Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. He lives with his wife Anthea in the Yorkshire Dales.

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‘A highly entertaining writer with a great gift of being funny and serious at once.’ DON CUPITT, former Dean of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, author of ‘The Sea of Faith’