Andrew Kenrick

Author, historian, editor & lecturer

Dr Andrew Kenrick is an award-winning author, historian, editor and lecturer in creative non-fiction. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Hinterland Magazine. His debut work of biography, Rex Juba: 15 Glimpses of an African King, is out now from Penguin.

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TalkSport Extra Time Interview

If you were up in the middle of the night last night/this morning, you might have heard me talking to Paul Ross on TalkSport’s Extra Time show about Rex Juba (“a brilliant and gripping read!”), which is also their book of the week (must be the football homecoming parade analogy I use in the prologue).…

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Why ‘glimpses’?

The subtitle of my new book, Rex Juba, is ’15 Glimpses of an African King’ – but why glimpses at all? It’s a great question, but one that needs to pick away at the concept of writing biography. It’s almost impossible to write a complete biography of an ancient figure – even the most famous…

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