The Agony and the Ecstasy: Short Stories and New Writing in Celebration of the World Cup

by Nicholas Royle (Editor)

A collection of short stories and recollections in which a selection of football fanatics and players write about what the World Cup means to them. Contributors include David Baddiel, Melvyn Bragg and Francis Lee, who was a member of the 1970 England squad.

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Nicholas Royle is an English writer. He is the author of seven novels, two novellas and a short story collection. He has edited sixteen anthologies of short stories. A senior lecturer in creative writing at the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University, he also runs Nightjar Press, publishing original short stories as signed, limited-edition chapbooks. He works as a fiction reviewer for The Independent and the Warwick Review and as an editor for Salt Publishing.

Reviews

[Peyton Gupton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thoroughly enjoyable. However, some may detest the length of the chapters which make reading assignments difficult.