Alexandra Heminsley

Alexandra Heminsley is author of three books about women, bodies and sport, including bestselling memoir Running Like a Girl and Some Body to Love. She is also an experienced co-writer, whose top ten Sunday Times bestsellers iclude Judy Murray's William Hill Sports Book of the Year-nominated Knowing the Score and Sara Davies' We Can All Make It.

After working in publishing, she became a freelance journalist, broadcaster and author in 2004. She was the books editor at Elle for eight years, and spent ten years at BBC Radio 2's Claudia Winkleman Arts Show. She regularly appears at literary festivals as both co-host and guest, and was a judge for 2011's Costa Novel of the Year Award.