Andrew Cave – Ghostwriter

Facts are so much more interesting than fiction. In 38 years as an award-winning journalist, author and ghostwriter, I have helped tell remarkable and astonishing tales many times more adventurous and momentous than anything mere imagination could have conjured up.

Truth is where mysteries deepen and wonder becomes ever more awesome. And we all have such stories within us, waiting to be told.

interviewing titans including Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, James Dyson and Sir Richard Branson as New York Business Editor and Associate City Editor for The Daily and Sunday Telegraph, then spreading my net to freelance for the Telegraph, Forbes, The Times, The Guardian and CityAM, my books began as rainy-day projects. Now they form the fulcrum of my work, with 11 titles published by Penguin Random House, Hachette, Pearson and Profile Books.

Stories I have helped tell include:

* How Thor Bjorgolfsson built a $4bn Eastern Europe brewing, telecoms and pharmaceuticals fortune to become Iceland’s first billionaire by the age of 40. The following year, he lost virtually everything and was reviled in his home country as the supposed cause of the Icelandic banking crash of 2007/8. (Billions to Bust and Back, Profile Books, 2014).

* What a fallen billionaire did next. How Thor rebuilt his fortune in Latin America, building top-4 mobile telecoms players in Chile and Colombia and becoming a multi-billionaire once again. (Billions to Bust and Beyond, Profile Books, 2025).

* How Sir Mohamed Mansour fought back from nearly losing his leg at the age of ten and then fighting off an aggressive cancer to open the first Chevrolet car dealerships in Egypt and build one of Africa’s building largest family conglomerates. The former Egyptian government minister and UK Conservative Party treasurer is now a major tech investor, owns one-third of the Caffè Nero coffee shops chain and has invested $500m in building America’s 20th MLS Soccer franchise in San Diego. (Drive to Succeed: The Making of an Egyptian Titan, Penguin Random House, 2023).

* The first book to ever interview three quarters of the chief executives in Britain’s FTSE100 index to discover how they really lead (The Secrets of CEOs, Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2008).

* A sequel containing the first account of what 50 major CEOS had to do to survive the 2008/9 global financial crisis (The New Secrets of CEOs, Nicholas Brealey, 2010)

* One of the first books to document the new purpose-led economy, with 50 interviews with CEOs with broader motives than profit (The Power of Purpose, Pearson, 2018).

I work closely with authors to listen to their stories, advise around what they do and do not want to say and hold their hand through the entire process, from book proposals to finding a publisher and completing a project.

I am low-ego, highly empathetic and a great listener. I would love to help you tell your own extraordinary story too.