Michael Tanner, raised and educated in Oxford, is the author of 19 books. A confirmed film buff, his interests also include rugby, boxing, horseracing, and greyhound racing. The Legend of Mick the Miller was a leading contender for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year and for the National Sporting Club's Sports Biography of the Year. He has holidayed on the Dingle Peninsula for many years where he wrote Troubled Epic.