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Category archive: Books and reviews

4 Feb
2012

Hooker’s life story that is a ruck-load of laughs

Life as a hooker V3

STEVEN DOWNES reviews one of those rarities in sports publishing: a humorous book which is genuinely funny

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18 Jan
2012

Millwall book’s re-run emphasises Family values

Family

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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8 Jan
2012

“Small” sports publisher ready to challenge Amazon

Easy to buy from: but are Amazon fair to sell trhough?

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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5 Jan
2012

Magazine goes Dutch for literary sports festival

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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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20 Dec
2011

Without books on history, where’s publishing’s future?

Booked out: Anton Rippon wonders if there's any future for mid-lost sports authors who generate book ideas about off-beat subjects

Another day, another rejection note. Successful sports author ANTON RIPPON is concerned about the publishing business

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16 Dec
2011

Arlott anniversary is marked in melancholy

Much-missed master of the mike: John Arlott, who died 20 years ago this week

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

Sportswomen on Rand’s standard for 50 years

Mary Rand

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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28 Nov
2011

Collins, the ultimate fan, offers fine writing lesson

Among the Fans

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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26 Nov
2011

This book on Liverpool is too much of a Gamble

all on red

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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16 Nov
2011

Sports journalists outsprinted in latter day bull run

The Standard's front page. Or is it The Independent?

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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