Jun 23, 2021
We are delighted to announce that three of our authors have made the longlist for the Telegraph Sports Book Awards Football Book of the Year! Congratulations James Montague, Daniel Gray and Tim Rich.
1312: Among the Ultras by James Montague
1312: Among the Ultras tells the story of how the movement began and how it grew to become the global phenomenon that now dominates the stadiums from the Balkans and Buenos Aires. With unprecedented insider access, the book investigates how ultras have grown into a fiercely political movement, embracing extremes on both the left and right; fighting against the commercialisation of football and society – and against the attempts to control them by the authorities, who both covet and fear their power.
Extra Time by Daniel Gray
From club lottos to undeserved wins, and from pitch-invading animals to the roar after a minute’s silence, Extra Time is another romantic celebration of football fandom and its shared joys, habits, eccentricities and peculiarities. It is a salute to keepers going forward for corners, match balls landing on stand roofs and goals scored in quick succession.
These chapters offer a gleeful antidote to disillusionment with modern football, VAR and all. They are reminders of why we care and justifications for our devotion. Each warmly evokes this sport’s blessed capacity to offer escape and diversion. Let us share the delight once more.
Featuring interviews from across South America, Europe and Yorkshire, The Quality of Madness is a comprehensive and compelling biography, tracing Bielsa’s story from growing up as a member of one of Argentina’s most remarkable families to his revival of Leeds.
Bielsa has long been known as ‘El Loco’ – the Madman – and yet as Tim Rich’s revelatory study reveals, there is mercurial method and audacious logic to the madness.
Jun 15, 2021
We are delighted to announce that Michael O’Mara is set to publish a new training manual by Hollywood trainer Simon Waterson.
A former marine, Simon has worked in the film industry for over 25 years during which time he has transformed Daniel Craig’s physique for five James Bond films, turned Chris Evans into Captain America and trained John Boyega and Adam Driver for the recent Star Wars films.
Using the same methods and tricks that he uses for turning the world’s biggest film stars into athletes Simon teaches you how to reimagine your own body, and improve your health, energy, sleep and mood. A performance manual for any age, gender and fitness level, Intelligent Fitness: The Smart Way to Reboot Your Body and Get in Shape encourages you to focus on performance, rather than aesthetic to reach achievable fitness goals.
May 27, 2021
‘A highly entertaining read, deftly melding social history with sporting memoir and travelogue’ Mail on Sunday
A history of Latin America through cricket
Cricket was the first sport played in almost every country of the Americas – earlier than football, rugby or baseball. In 1877, when England and Australia played the inaugural Test match at the MCG, Uruguay and Argentina were already ten years into their derby played across the River Plate.
Cricket journalists Timothy Abraham and James Coyne take us on a journey to discover this largely untold story of cricket’s fate in the world’s most colourful continent. Fascinating and surprising, Evita Burned Down Our Pavilion is a valuable addition to cricketing and social history.
Evita Burned Down Our Pavilion is published by Little, Brown.
Order your copy here
May 13, 2021
Clive Tyldesley’s incredibly moving love letter to the great game is out now.
Football changes everything. It changes how we feel, how we think, how we behave. It turns us into someone else.
You love your team first. It’s tribal. Except I did love something else. I loved the idea of commentating on my team, on every team. I loved it even more than my team. I ditched the girl next door for the diva on the silver screen.
Like all true romances, it was irrational and intoxicating, it was tangled and foolish, it became addictive and occasionally heart-breaking and it kept on changing.
Two United goals inside two minutes changed it in 1999. A teenage Evertonian called Rooney twisted the plot in 2002. Three Liverpool goals in less than six minutes changed everything again in 2005. Hello, hello.
Moments. Mere blinks of wide eyes. Football happens in heartbeats. Meeting those moments is my job. Seeing them, saying them, spelling out the difference they have just made. It’s all I’ve ever wanted to do. Probably all I can do.
Spending time in the company of the ‘greats’ of football like Sir Alex Ferguson, Bill Shankly, Brian Clough and Sir Kenny Dalglish has changed everything for me, and probably for you too.
Not For Me, Clive is published by Headline.
Available here
Apr 27, 2021
We are delighted to announce that Octopus Publishing has signed The Maccabbees’ Felix White’s debut.
It’s Always Summer Somewhere is an incredibly honest detail of a life lived with cricket. It offers a sense of genuine empathy and understanding not just with cricket fans, but sports and music fans across the world, in articulating our reasons for pouring so much meaning into something that we simply cannot control. Culminating in the heart-stopping World Cup Final in 2019, the book finally answers that question fans have so often asked… what is it about this game?
It’s Always Summer Somewhere will be released in August 2021.
Pre-order your copy here: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/it-s-always-summer-somewhere-a-matter-of-life-and-cricket/9781788402422
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