 As a journalist, Tim Heald wrote for "Punch", "The Spectator", "The Sunday Times" (Atticus column), "Daily Express" (feature writer 1967–1972), "The Times" and "The Daily Telegraph", and was a freelance book reviewer and feature and travel writer for various other publications.As a speaker, he was often a guest on Cunard cruise ships the QE2 and the Caronia.He was the author of "Village Cricket" (Little Brown, 2004), on which a Carlton TV series was based.