STEVEN DOWNES reviews one of those rarities in sports publishing: a humorous book which is genuinely funny
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Watford-born-and-bred Michael Calvin spent a season as a fly on the Millwall. The resulting self-published book has now been picked up by a publisher and appeared with an updated edition
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RANDALL NORTHAM, the SJA’s Treasurer, also runs a small sports books publishing business. He’s considering battling his way through the jungle of distributors and books shops
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The Dutch embassy in London has joined forces with literary magazine Litro to stage a literature, sports and the arts festival in and around Hyde Park next month
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Another day, another rejection note. Successful sports author ANTON RIPPON is concerned about the publishing business
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16 Dec
2011
2011
Arlott anniversary is marked in melancholy
The 20th anniversary of the death of John Arlott passed this week almost unmarked, with the notable exception of a late-night programme hidden away on BBC4
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11 Dec
2011
2011
Sportswomen on Rand’s standard for 50 years
NORMAN GILLER reflects on the outstanding talent of the sports journalists’ first Sportswoman of the Year, and embarks on another publishing venture in fear of the men in the white coats
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Fans’ football books are one thing, but Patrick Collins’s time spent among the fans is much more rewarding, says STEVEN DOWNES
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A book on Liverpool in the 1980s by a former lottery ticket seller at Anfield is too much about mundane office politics, too little about some giants of football for ERIC BROWN
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NORMAN GILLER on an old newspaperman who opposed sports desk merger plans, and books himself in for some extra speed work
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