William Coles for Wimbledon Rogue

"From his precious vantage point, Bill recreates a world of gossip, lust and ambition, infused with sly humour and cultured judgment. This book is an ace!" - Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street Journal.

Wimbledon Rogue is what happens when the world’s most buttoned-up sporting event is infiltrated by a mischievous tabloid reporter.

In 1996, Kim was sent to the Wimbledon Championships as a reporter for The Sun newspaper. He was not there to report on the tennis matches, but to dig up every scintilla of dirt and scuttlebutt that occurred away from the tennis courts.

Kim discovered all the gossip, and the bad-mouthing, the petty rivalries and the back-stabbing. And, best by far, the laughter and the enormous camaraderie that is the essence of a Wimbledon umpire’s life. (Not so very dissimilar, actually, to the Sun newsroom of 1996).

William Coles has been a journalist for 25 years and was the New York Correspondent, Political Correspondent and Royal Reporter on The Sun. He has previously been a tabloid consultant with South Africa’s biggest newspaper group, Media 24, as well as The Herald Group in Glasgow and DC Thomson in Dundee. Coles has written for a wide variety of papers and magazines ranging from The Wall Street Journal to The Mail, The Scotsman and Prima Baby Magazine.