**’This may conceivably be Barnes’s best work yet’ Marcus Berkmann,* Daily Mail*
‘For 30 years I was the voice of sport at *The Times* – but that’s enough about me. What matters is sport.’**
This is **an autobiography** from which the author, award-winning writer **Simon Barnes** , has been surgically removed. He has reported on six **World Cups** , seven **Olympic Games** , cricket on five continents and more than 20 **Wimbledons** , watching Diego Maradona, Usain Bolt, Sachin Tendulkar and Roger Federer at their peak. Along the way he had soul-revealing conversations with Ayrton Senna and sat on Desert Orchid.
His journalist’s experience gives him perspective, until the addictive madness of sport takes over. *Epic* is a stunning mosaic of some of **the greatest sporting moments** in recent years, which build up to provide the reader with a better idea of what sport is for, what differentiates winners from losers, and reveals how sport teaches us how better to enjoy life.
**This is sport unplugged. Speaking for itself. Allowing the reader to understand sport with more clarity and depth than ever before.**