Arthur Taylor
Arthur Taylor, the author of Played at the Pub, spent most of his working life as a producer/director at Granada TV, and much of his spare time going to the pub. Travelling the country, and also much of Europe, he developed a strong passion for games, culminating in the publication of the highly influential Guinness Book of Pub Games in 1992. He won a Budweiser Budvar Travel Bursary in 1998 for his Good Beer Guide to Northern France, and was Glenfiddich Drinks Writer of the Year in 2001 for a portfolio of articles in the CAMRA newspaper, What's Brewing. His other books include Brass Bands (Granada, 1979), Labour and Love - An Oral History of the Brass Band Movement (Elm Tree, 1983) and Spring on the Somme, A River Journey (Constable, 1995).
