Chris Horrie is a journalist, author and lecturer specializing in investigative journalism, finance and profiles of major public figures.
As a freelance feature writer his work can be found in the following British newspapers: The Independent, Independent on Sunday, Evening Standard, Mail on Sunday, The Observer, New Statesman, The Guardian.
Horrie is also the author/co-author of many major books, usually concerning major media figures:
2009: True Blue – Strange Tales from a Tory Nation (with David Matthews). Publication in August 2009. Fourth Estate / HarperCollins.
2008: Chapters on Investigative Journalism and the Law; and a practical guide to the Freedom of Information Act for Investigative Journalists in second edition of Investigative Journalism: Context and Practice, Hugo de Burgh ed, London and New York: Routledge.
2008: What is Islam? (3rd edition) with first publication in Russian.
2007: Play It Again – tie-in book for the primetime BBC 1 television series of the same name. Harper Collins, March 2007.
2006: What is Islam? (third edition) commissioned for publication in spring 2007.
2005: ‘Stick it up your Punter’ (3rd edition) – Simon & Schuster (book continuously in print for fifteen years).
2004: What is Islam? (4th printing) – Virgin Books. Editions in German, Dutch, Hebrew, Spanish, Arabic, French, Russian and Persian.
2004: ‘Tabloid Nation’ – from the birth of the Daily Mirror to the death of the tabloid. André Deutsch.