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Danny Scott grew up in an East Midlands mining village, serving his apprenticeship as an engineer on leaving school, before moving to London in the 1980s. After a job in counter (industrial) espionage, he became a private investigator, then a painter and decorator, then an engineer again, before becoming a journalist and interviewing people like Sir Paul McCartney, Mikhail Gorbachev, Usain Bolt and Dave Hill from Slade. He lives in Essex with his wife and their young son.>

About the author

Danny Scott grew up in an East Midlands mining village, serving his apprenticeship as an engineer on leaving school, before moving to London in the 1980s. After a job in counter (industrial) espionage, he became a private investigator, then a painter and decorator, then an engineer again, before becoming a journalist and interviewing people like Sir Paul McCartney, Mikhail Gorbachev, Usain Bolt and Dave Hill from Slade. He lives in Essex with his wife and their young son.

Product details

• Authors: Danny Scott, Scott Danny
• Publisher: John Murray
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 12.03.2026
• EAN: 9781399816809
• ISBN: 978-1-399-81680-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Nottinghamshire, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Mining, Memoirs, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1970 to c 1980, Mining Industry, Mining technology & engineering, Mining technology and engineering, Extractive industries, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs