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Decca Aitkenhead

Decca Aitkenhead is the Chief Interviewer of the Sunday Times, where she interviews leading names in global public life. Her interviewees have included Usain Bolt and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Oprah Winfrey and Bill Gates, Hillary Clinton and Tony Blair. Her journalism has won multiple awards, including five British Press Awards for Broadsheet Interviewer of the Year.

In 2000 she wrote her first book, a travel memoir, while living in Treasure Beach. Her 2016 memoir, All At Sea (Fourth Estate), was about her life with her late husband, who drowned in Treasure Beach.

She has also ghost written a bestselling memoir for the Manchester United and England footballer, Rio Ferdinand.

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