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| Our regular feature Plat du Jour offers up an alternative Man Booker longlist. |
| Our regular feature where some of our favourite writers talk about what they’ve been reading. This edition includes authors with a connection to sport. Novelists Chris Cleave and Donna Daley-Clarke feature alongside biographer Miranda Seyour and memoir writer Gary Imlach. |
| Will Buckley and Sarah Wardle are both keen football fans and here explore this great British obsession. Will talks about how it is reflected in our literature generally while Sarah takes on football, poetry and fiction. |
| The British Council in Germany recently ran a project profiling football and literature. Here, British Council organiser Marijke Brouwer talks about the impact of this stunning event while writer Chris Dolan explains what it all meant to him. |
| Although some may argue that sport and politics aren’t a comfortable mix, in the end it’s hard to keep the two separate. Simon Kuper examines the ties that bind literature, politics and sport while Liz Crolley explores issues around women in sports writing. |
| Sports journalism in the UK is in a great state. The broadsheets are producing their own supplements, the tabloids have some fantastic writers and even the fanzines are going strong. Kevin Mitchell looks at exactly where it's at. Meanwhile Hunter Davies offers an overview of footballing biographies and how they have changed over the years. |
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A list of books referred to in this edition Literature Matters |
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Armitage, Simon – Zoom! Bloodaxe 1997 £7.95 ISBN 1-85224-078-4
Briscoe, Joanna – Sleep With Me Bloomsbury 2005 £9.99 ISBN 0-7475-8167-3
Buckley, Will – The Man Who Hated Football Harper Collins 2005 £7.99 ISBN 0-00-717555-8
Carey, Peter – The True History of the Kelly Gang Faber & Faber 2002 £7.99 ISBN 0-571-20987-4
Carr, J. L. – How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup The Quince Tree Press 1992 £6.99 ISBN 0-900847-94-8
Clewlow, Carol Not Married, Not Bothered Harper Collins 2005 £18.99 ISBN 0-00-720400-0
Cope, Wendy – Serious Concerns Faber & Faber 1992 £8.99 ISBN 0-571-16705-5
E. Phyllis Clark – West Indian Cookery Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd. 2004 £3.30 ISBN 0-17-566185-5
Coddington, Anne – One of the Lads Harper Collins 1997 £4.99 ISBN 0-7225-3661-5
Dean, Louise – This Human Season Scribner 2005 £12.99 ISBN 0-7432-4001-4
Dunphy, Eamon – Only A Game Penguin Books 1987 £7.99 ISBN 0-14-010290-6
Evans, Diana – 26a Chatto & Windus 2005 £12.99 ISBN 0-7011-7796-9
Evaristo, Bernardine – Soul Tourist Hamish Hamilton 2005 £12.99 ISBN 0-241-14115-X
Flynn, Nick – Another Bullshit Night in Suck City Faber & Faber 2005 £7.99 ISBN 0-571-21408-8
Ford, Richard – The Sportswriter The Harvill Press 1996£7.99 ISBN 1-86046-171-9
Gascoigne, Paul – Gazza: My Story Headline Books 2005 £6.99 ISBN 0-7472-6818-5
Gee, Maggie – The White Family Saqi Books 2002 £7.95 ISBN 0-86356-140-3
Glanville, Brian – Goalkeepers Are Different Virgin 1998 £6.99 ISBN 0-7535-0243-7
Graham, Laurie – Gone With the Windsors Perennial 2005 £12.99 ISBN 0-00-714675-2
Greene, Graham – The Power & the Glory Vintage 2001 £7.99 ISBN 0-09-928609-2
Gummer, Andrew – You Come With Me – I Get Tickets: On the Football Terraces with the Locals in 15 European Countries The Parrs Wood Press 2004 £9.95 ISBN 1-903158-53-2
Hare, Bernard – Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew Sceptre 2005 £14.99 ISBN 0-340-83734-9
Harrison, Tony – V Bloodaxe Books 2000 £7.95 ISBN 0-906427-97-5
Hartley, L. P. – The Go-Between Penguin 2004 £7.99 ISBN 0-14-118778-6
Hemingway, Ernest – The Snows of Kilimanjaro Vintage 2004 £5.99 ISBN 0-09-946092-0
Higgins, George V – The Rat on Fire Constable & Robinson 2001 £6.99 ISBN - 1-84119-326-7
Hornby, Nick – Fever Pitch Penguin 2002 £5.99 ISBN 0-14-029557-7
James, P. D. – The Lighthouse Faber & Faber 2005 £10.99 ISBN 0-571-22932-8
Joyce, James – Ulysses – Penguin 2000 £9.99 ISBN 0-14-118280-6
Lawrence, D. H. – Women In Love Penguin 2000 £7.99 ISBN 0-14-118336-5
Levi, Primo – The Periodic Table Penguin 2001 £7.99 ISBN 0-14-029661-1
Lott, Tim – The Seymour Tapes Viking 2005 £12.99 ISBN 0-670-91270-0
MacDonnell A. G. – England Their England Picador 1983 £6.99 ISBN 0-330-28041-4
MacNeil, Kevin – The Stornoway Way Hamish Hamilton £10.99 2005 ISBN 0-241-14320-9
McCarthy, Cormac – Blood Meridian: Or, the Evening Redness in the West Picador 1994 £7.99 ISBN 0-330-31256-1
Merritt, Stephanie – Real Faber & Faber 2005 £10.99 ISBN 0-571-22263-3
Morrison, Toni – Love Vintage 2004 £6.99 ISBN 0-09-945549-8
Munro, Alice – Runaway Chatto & Windus 2005 £15.99 ISBN 0-7011-7750-0
Neate, Patrick – City of Tiny Lights Viking 2005 £15.99 ISBN 0-670-91265-4
Parks, Tim – A Season With Verona Vintage 2003 £7.99 ISBN 0-09-942267-0
Paterson, Don – Nil Nil Faber & Faber 2004 £8.99 ISBN 0-571-16808-6
Pavese, Cesare – The House on the Hill Peter Owen £11.95 ISBN 0-7206-4286-8
Phillips, Carol – Dancing in the Dark Secker & Warburg 2005 £12.99 ISBN 0-436-20583-1
Ray, Rebecca – Newfoundland Hamish Hamilton 2005 £16.99 ISBN 0-241-14284-9
Roth, Philip – American Pastoral Vintage 1998 £7.99 ISBN 0-09-977181-0
Schulberg, Budd – On the Waterfront Faber & Faber 1991 £7.99 ISBN 0-571-16120-0
Shaw, Fiona – The Picture She Took Virago 2005 £15.99 ISBN 1-84408-000-5
Simpson, Joe – Touching the Void Vintage 2003 £7.99 ISBN 0-09-945229-4
Steinbeck, John – Cannery Row Penguin 2001 £7.99 ISBN 0-14-029296-9
Steinbeck, John – The Grapes of Wrath Penguin 2001 £7.99 ISBN 0-14-029292-6
Steinbeck, John – Totilla Flat Penguin 2000 £7.99 ISBN 0-14-118511-2
Stoddart, Greta – At Home in the Dark Anvil Press Poetry 2001 £7.95 ISBN 0-85646-334-5
Storey, David – This Sporting Life Vintage 2000 £7.99 ISBN 0-09-927479-5
Swarup, Vikas – Q & A Doubleday 2005 £12.99 ISBN 0-385-60813-6
Thorpe, Adam – The Rules of Perspective Jonathan Cape 2005 £12.99 ISBN 0-224-05187-3
Wallace, Randall – Braveheart Longman 1999 £3.90 ISBN 0-582-41680-9
Williams, Tennessee – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Penguin 2001 £9.99 ISBN 0-14-118435-3
Williams, Tennessee – A Streetcar Named Desire Penguin 2000 £8.99 ISBN 0-14-118256-3
Woolf, Virginia – Mrs Dalloway Vintage 2004 £6.99 ISBN 0-09-947045-4 |
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