Colin Shindler

Colin Shindler is a British author, screenwriter and social historian who has written about football, Jewish life in Manchester and British cultural history. He has worked in television and film, and his personal writing combines memoir with social observation. How to Be an Internee with No Previous Experience is a family memoir that uses humour and humanity to tell the story of his father's internment during the Second World War. Shindler writes with warmth, wit and a deep awareness of the absurdities and injustices of wartime life. His audiobooks and books are engaging listening for anyone interested in Second World War history, Jewish experience in Britain and memoir that balances the serious with the comic.