This web site is dedicated to the Chess Champion, author, playwright, boxer, poet John Healy and his powerful autobiography The Grass Arena. The Grass Arena was turned into an award winning film by the BBC in 1991 and catapulted to movie making fame Gillies Mackinnon.

The film also established (Art Director of the Globe theatre) Mark Rylance as an actor; winning Rylance the Radio Times Best Newcomer Award for his film role as John Healy.

The Grass Arena is a compelling and gritty film; it portrays forcefully John Healy's struggle through vagrancy, alcoholism and prison and finally his move into the world of chess where he finds salvation.

This web site's hope therefore is to promote John Healy to a much wider community.