Tom Bower

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Tom Bower (born 28 September 1946) is a British writer.

A former Panorama reporter, his books include highly critical unauthorised biographies of Tiny Rowland, Robert Maxwell, Mohamed Al-Fayed, Geoffrey Robinson, Gordon Brown and Richard Branson. He won the 2003 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award for Broken Dreams, an investigation into corruption in English football. His biography of Conrad Black and Barbara Amiel Conrad and Lady Black: Dancing on the Edge was published in November 2006.

He is married to Veronica Wadley, the editor of the London Evening Standard, and they have four children.

Preceded by Donald McRae

William Hill Sports Book of the Year winner 2003

Succeeded by Peter Oborne