Happy Publication Day to Dan Jackson
Congratulations to Dan Jackson with Howay the Lads!: A People’s History of Newcastle United being published today by Little, Brown Books.
Happy Publication Day to Christoph Biermann
Christoph Biermann’s latest book – Game Theory: How Luck and Analytics Shape Football, is out now by Blink Publishing
The Latest Title in the Football GOAT series is published
Congratulations to Seth Burkett and Matt Oldfield with the latest title in the Football GOAT series – Who is the Ultimate Premier League GOAT? – being published by Walker Books.
Congratulations to Josh Lewin
Rescuing The Royals: Inside the Football League Madhouse by Josh Lewin is out now from Icon Books.
Happy Publication Day to Neil Squires
The Fall and Rise of the Mölkky Bar Kids: A Sporting Underdog Story is out today from Icon Books
Too old to lift a World Cup, too burned out for the Ashes – and with too many aches to take on Augusta – the Mölkky Bar Kids are friends who, after a lifetime of trying, found their true calling in sport. It just happened to be a convoluted game of Finnish skittles.
When Neil Squires took up the obscure game of Mölkky, he had no idea that it would carry him to Japan, where he would represent his country and take his shot at sporting immortality. Sometimes those conversations in the pub can really get out of hand.
This is the hilarious tale of four middle-aged men who go halfway across the world, in ill-fitting Team GB kit, to compete for the nation and become unlikely Japanese media celebrities, all the time wondering just how on earth they ended up there. It’s a story about friendship, growing older and what happens when you allow yourself to get carried away and dream big.
Happy Publication Day to Anthony King
THE STORY OF HOW A WILD MOUNTAIN ADVENTURE EVOLVED INTO AN ELITE OLYMPIC SPORT
‘Why is the best blood of England to waste itself in scaling hitherto inaccessible peaks, in staining the eternal snow, and reaching the unfathomable abyss never to return?’ – The Times, 1865
In the 1950s, rock climbing was a wild mountain adventure that was defined by a rebellious, bohemian culture and practised by small groups of amateur enthusiasts. Today, rock-climbing has become a professionalised, high-performance, mass-participation Olympic sport. There are now more than 400 climbing walls and over 500,000 people climb regularly in the UK.
Ascent tells the story of this remarkable transformation.
Anthony King – a dedicated climber himself – traces the sport’s evolution through decades of rebellion, innovation and achievement to its place today as a vibrant, diverse culture. His own experiences colour the narrative; we discover not just how climbing developed, but what it feels like to climb and be a climber. More than just a history of the sport, through this story we also see how British society itself has changed.
Expansive, immediate and deeply engaging, Ascent is both cultural sport history and lived experience.
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