Nat Gould

Born in Manchester in 1857, Nat Gould was the pen name of Nathaniel Gould. He worked as a journalist before moving to Australia in the 1880s, where he wrote for newspapers in Brisbane and Sydney and became especially well known as a racing correspondent.

That reporting life fed directly into his fiction. Gould wrote a large number of novels, most of them set in the world of horse racing, and his lively, accessible style made him enormously popular with readers in both Australia and Britain. He later returned to England, where he continued publishing at a remarkable pace.

He died in 1919, but his reputation as one of the great popular storytellers of sporting fiction has lasted. For readers who enjoy brisk plots, colorful characters, and the atmosphere of the turf, his work still offers a vivid glimpse of a vanished world.