STEVEN HALE

Steven Hale is a British author, storyteller and lifelong admirer of the personalities, characters and extraordinary stories that form part of Britain's cultural history.

Few names in British sport carry the weight of Red Rum. Three Grand National victories, two second places and a bond with Aintree that has never been repeated. He belongs to the public memory as much as to racing.

That is what made him the right subject for a novel — not a biography, but a question about what a legend is, and what people might be willing to do to have one back.

In Red Rum: One More Run, Steven combines sporting history with fiction, humour, science, suspense and emotion to imagine the impossible: what if the greatest Grand National horse of them all was given one final chance?

The novel moves between international racing wealth, cutting-edge science and the humour and loyalty of Liverpool — and ends where it always had to, at Aintree.