Alex Wade

Alex Wade is a writer, freelance journalist and occasional media lawyer. He is the author of Surf Nation: In Search of the Fast Rights and Hollow Lefts of Britain and Ireland and Wrecking Machine: A Tale of Real Fights and White Collars.

Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival Appearance
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Alex lives in the far west of Cornwall and writes a weekly column for The Times on all things coastal. In February 2009, Alex was nominated as Sports Feature Writer of the Year in the Sports Journalists’ Association’s annual awards. He was the first UK writer to cover surfing in serious depth for a national newspaper thanks to a daily blog at timesonline, now hosted by A1 Surf at surfnation.co.uk.

As well as running the Surf Nation blog for A1 Surf, he contributes regularly to The Times, The Sunday Times, The Independent, The Independent on Sunday and The Guardian, and among other national newspapers has also written for The FT Magazine, The Telegraph and The Sun.

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LINKS:
www.alexwade.com
Alex Wade Interview | Cooler Magazine | May 2008•

Surf Nation: In Search of the Fast Lefts and Hollow Rights of Britain and Ireland
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