Ed Caesar is an award-winning author and journalist living in South Manchester.

Having began his career at the Independent, Ed has since written for the Sunday Times, GQ, New York Times Magazine, Esquire, and The New Yorker, scooping multiple awards along the way, including ‘Journalist of the Year’ at the Foreign Press Association Awards for his hard-hitting war coverage in the Central African Republic. 

His subjects have included North Korean hacking armies, Russian Oligarchs, global banking scandals, Cristiano Ronaldo, the Dark Web, the diamond industry, and interviews with the likes of Steven Spielberg, Kevin Costner (Kev called Ed “weird”), and a very high Snoop Dogg.

In 2015 he published his first book, ‘Two Hours: The Quest to Run the Impossible Marathon’, followed in 2020 by ‘The Moth and the Mountain’, an extraordinary tale of how a man with no flying or mountaineering experience flew himself to Everest and attempted to become the first to conquer the highest peak in the world. So far ‘The Moth’ has picked up a Sunday Times Biography Award, a Telegraph Sports Book Award, and a Costa Book Award nomination.

Ed continues to contribute to the New Yorker while deliberating on subject matter for a third book. He’s also bought some decks…