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Forgotten Football Clubs by Philip O’Rourke – Review
By Karl Hornsey It can often seem as though the possibility of football clubs disappearing from existence is something of ... -
The Man Who Put a Curse on Muhammad Ali by Norman Giller – Review
By Karl Hornsey This is the sort of niche book that Pitch Publishing have become so good at releasing over ... -
Brazil 1970: How the Greatest Team of All Time Won the World Cup by Sam ...
By Karl Hornsey Soccer journalist Sam Kunti nails his colours to the mast with the title of this book, which ... -
The Mysterious Mr Badman by WF Harvey – Review
By Sarah Morgan What do you mean you’ve never heard of WF Harvey? Well, shame on you! Born in Leeds ... -
Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones by Hettie Judah – Review
By Elizabeth Stanforth-Sharpe Hettie Judah is one of the United Kingdom’s leading art critics and commentators, and principal art critic ... -
Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women by Victoria Smith – Review
By Clare Jenkins Thirty years ago, way before LGBTQI+ politics became A Thing, I did an MA in Women’s Studies. ... -
The Black Spectacles by John Dickson Carr – Review
By Sarah Morgan Looking at the title of this novel, you might imagine that it features someone who wears Buddy ... -
The Guru, the Bagman and the Sceptic by Seamus O’Mahoney – Review
By Barney Bardsley This account of the birth of psychoanalysis in the early 20th century is a rip-roaring page turner ... -
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld – Review
By Barney Bardsley Curtis Sittenfeld is a clever and appealing writer, who achieved well-deserved acclaim for her fictionalised account of ... -
The Redemption of Isobel Farrar by Alan Robert Clark – Review
By Sandra Callard Set in 1926, this tight-paced and always interesting novel focuses on Isobel Farrar, a rich, elderly but ... -
The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon – Review
By Sandra Callard This tightly written thriller could be based anywhere – which is all to the good as the ... -
Remarkable Cricket Grounds by Brian Levison – Review
By Dominic Picksley There was a time when I would don my whites and stand in a field for a ...











