The Flying Prince: Alexander Obolensky: The Rugby Hero Who Died Too Young: The Sunday Times Rugby Book of the Year Winner 2022

Hugh Godwin is a sports journalist who is the rugby union correspondent of the i, a national daily newspaper in the UK. He has held that role since April 2016 and before that he had the same position with the Independent on Sunday for eight years. Overall, he has written on rugby and other sports for thirty years, reporting live from five Rugby World Cup finals, and he has interviewed every major rugby player and personality of the modern era. He is a regular broadcaster as a rugby analyst for BBC Radio London, and he is the secretary of the UK Rugby Union Writers' Club. In 2004 he wrote England: Rugby World Champions, a book celebrating England's 2003 World Cup success. This is his first biography.