Order of Sam Bourne/Jonathan Freedland Books

Sam Bourne, the pen name of British journalist and author Jonathan Freedland, writes a weekly column for The Guardian and authors thrillers. Freedland, the youngest of three children and the only son of Jewish parents, has a father named Michael who was a biographer and journalist. Prior to attending university, he spent a gap year working on a kibbutz in Israel with the Labour Zionist group Habonim Dror. He later studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Wadham College, Oxford. Freedland joined the BBC in 1990 and subsequently contributed to The Guardian and the Daily Mirror. He published his first novel in 2006.