'Acclaimed novelist Richard Beard turns his writer's eye to the love of his sporting life - revisiting his old haunts in an anecdotal investigation of rubgy's heart and soul (and his own)' - Independent
Richard Beard is the author of three critically acclaimed novels, X 20 (Flamingo 1996), Damascus (Flamingo 1998), and The Cartoonist (Bloomsbury 2000). He won an Arts Council of England Author's Award in 1997, and Damascus was New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1999. He currently plays his rugby in Japan.
Nobody who enjoys both rugby and reading can fail to like this
book
*Scotland on Sunday*
A rich and pointed and yet loving trawl through the heroic
undercard of rugby
*Stephen Jones*
Wonderful... This is rugger in the blood, the blind love that
sometimes knows no reason save that it is there and there is
nothing to be done about it
*The Times*
The book rugby has been waiting for... A likeable, literate and
landmark tour de force which unravels and illuminates all the
cultural strands, as well as putting the World Cup in
perspective
*Frank Keating*
An elegiac, fascinating and insightful book
*Guardian*
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