Michael Calvin, one of the UK's most accomplished sportswriters, has worked in more than 80 countries, covering every major sporting event, including seven summer Olympic Games and six World Cup finals. His book The Nowhere Men won the Times Sports Book of the Year prize in 2014. He became the first author to receive the award in successive years, when Proud was named Sports Book of the Year in 2015. In the same year Living On The Volcano, was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year prize. No Nonsense was nominated for the award in 2016.