Richard Thorn is a former Head of Computing and Engineering at the University of West London, Victoria University, Melbourne and the University of Derby. He wrote a number of books...visualizza altroRichard Thorn is a former Head of Computing and Engineering at the University of West London, Victoria University, Melbourne and the University of Derby. He wrote a number of books on measurement science and engineering during his career but a biography of Nevil Shute was always waiting in the background. ‘Shute – the engineer who became a prince of storytellers’ was published in 2017. Since then he has been focussing on another of his obsessions – cricket. ‘When Cricket and Politics Collided’ was published in 2021 with a further book is due out spring 2024.visualizza meno