Douglas Wight

Douglas Wight is the Sunday Times bestselling author or ghostwriter of sixteen non-fiction books, most recently India Uniform Nine (Icon, 2022), Son of Escobar (Ad Lib, 2020) and The Bad Room (Harper Element, 2020). His books have sold over 100,00 copies, and include The Laundry Man (Penguin, 2012), the memoir of Ken Rijock, a Miami-based money launderer for Colombian drug smugglers; the autobiography of Olympic gold medal winning hockey player Sam Quek (White Owl, 2018), which was long-listed for the Telegraph Sports Autobiography of the Year 2019; Unforgivable (Penguin, 2014), the Sunday Times bestselling memoir of a woman who won a landmark legal case against a local authority who failed to protect her from an abusive mother; and Wish I Was There (John Blake, 2013), the autobiography of actress Emily Lloyd, whose glittering Hollywood career was blighted by mental illness.

He has been a journalist and writer for over twenty years covering news, features, politics and investigations in London, New York and his native Scotland.