[]
Left Field
  • Published: 5 May 2016
  • ISBN: 9781783522279
  • Imprint: Unbound Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368
Categories:

Left Field

The memoir of a lifelong activist

Buy from…
Amazon Apple Books Google Play Kobo Booktopia eBooks.com

A literary memoir from David Wilson – co-founder of War Child, lifelong political activist, and eventual whistleblower on the very charity he helped to create.

David Wilson has been a gaucho, a teacher, an artist's agent, a documentary filmmaker and playwright, but above all, he has been a lifelong political activist. In the 60s he marched to Aldermaston. In the 70s he protested against the Vietnam War and apartheid. In the 80s, with the Lesbian and Gay Liberation Front, he delivered food to striking miners. More recently, he has been active in the anti-war movement.

As the co-founder of War Child, he was instrumental in bringing a mobile bakery into war-torn Bosnia. In 1995 the charity gained prominence with the release of the Help album. Contributors included David Bowie, Brian Eno, Paul McCartney and Sinéad O'Connor. Help captured the world’s attention and brought the healing power of music to young people whose lives had been devastated by war.

Left Field is an engaging and humorous memoir which will inspire not only Wilson's generation, but also today's young people who are campaigning for a better, fairer world.
  • Published: 5 May 2016
  • ISBN: 9781783522279
  • Imprint: Unbound Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 368
Categories:

About the author

David Wilson

David Wilson has travelled much of the world but it's mostly in Britain that he feels a bit lost. For more than twenty-five years he's been a journalist on national newspapers, mainly the Daily Mail and The Times. He has also written for the New Statesman and Tribune and is an occasional talking head on BBC2 and Channel 4. He is a member of honour in the NUJ. Born in Liverpool, raised in Cheshire and Machester, apprenticed as a reporter in Sheffield, he did not go to Oxbridge, has never written a sitcom and nor has he slept with anyone famous. He lives in London and is a dad. This is his first novel.
DW

Also by David Wilson

This Age We're Living In
See all

Praise for Left Field

David Wilson has lived a life and a half. I was proud to play a minor role in War Child, an organisation in which David was inspirational. The broken world needed people like David then; it still does and it always will.

Sir Tom Stoppard

David Wilson is an adventurer and a free-thinker who ... did something truly useful with his life. His stubborn and yet self-effacing commitment to his ideals carried him through many daunting situations, and his sense of humour kept him able to see the funny side.

Brian Eno