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The Skipper's Wooing: And the Brown Man's Servant
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The Evergreen in red and white
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2014
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Historical Football Stories
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Spirit of Old Essex: Cunning Murrell and a Wizard of Yesterday
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Football fans won’t read fiction?
A version of this article was first published in Italian literary magazine Inutile in April 2014:
Aspiring novelists rarely get any feedback from agents or publishers but one to whom I am indebted told me that a novel based around football isn’t marketable because football fans won’t read fiction; they lap up biographies and autobiographies (almost entirely ghost-written, and works of fiction in th Read more of this blog post »
Aspiring novelists rarely get any feedback from agents or publishers but one to whom I am indebted told me that a novel based around football isn’t marketable because football fans won’t read fiction; they lap up biographies and autobiographies (almost entirely ghost-written, and works of fiction in th Read more of this blog post »
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Black Car Burning:
"This is a novel that, for me, is hard to review. Why? Because while this probably isn't the book for a reader like me, I still have to applaud how beautifully it is written. The author is a poet and her foray into novel writing shows how lyrically so"
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| Strong Stuff is a fitting title. There is a nod to the Sheffield setting, borrowing the Henderson’s Relish strapline, but it also describes the main character, Ruby, and her abilities as a survivor. Ruby is a young teenager and carer who is thrust by ...more | |
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A re-released version of the novel first published as The Vinegar Jar, this book is not what you might imagine from the cover. This is no light-hearted rom-com of a book. It is literary, dark and complex, unsettling, full of imagery and allegory. Dohe ...more |
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| The premise of this book is a strong one – the exploitation of dreams of young African footballers wanting to achieve fame and fortune in Europe, and the hardships and abuse that can bring. Some impressive research has gone into the book: on life in ...more | |
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Sue has come up with another novel showing her skill writing about and exploring complex family relationships. Watershed is told from the point of view of Pamela, a teacher at the end of her career, following the death of her twin sister and the fall ...more |
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One of over 50 football novels reviewed at: https://stevek1889.blogspot.com/2014/... I can't believe it took me so long to find this novel, published in 1961; I am now 53 novels in to this undertaking and this is one of the best. As with all the best ...more |
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