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Donald McRae is the award-winning author of eleven non-fiction books, which have featured sporting icons, legendary trial lawyers and heart surgeons. He has twice won the prestigious William Hill Sports Book of the Year, for Dark Trade and In Black & White. He is a three-time Interviewer of the Year winner and has also won Sports Feature Writer of the Year on three separate occasions for his work in the Guardian. He lives in Hertfordshire.
'In this outstanding and important book, Don McRae's
powerful storytelling shows the courage of Gerry Storey and
the people of the North as they withstand everyday horror. These
stories of bravery through boxing stay with you, and their passion
comes out in every word; their strength in every unassuming
anecdote.' -- Andy Lee * Author of Fighter, and former middleweight
world champion *
'Don McRae is one of the most captivating boxing writers on
the planet. His ability to understand and illuminate his subjects
is extraordinary. He uses the personal stories of four
boxers and one remarkable trainer to articulate how boxing became a
unifying force during those desolate days.' -- Barry McGuigan *
Former featherweight world champion *
'Kaleidoscopic deep-dive into the soul of Ulster boxing from
1969-1985... McRae translates assiduous research and deep,
repeated interviews into effortless storytelling. He just tells the
stories he hears - and fight people tell their stories with
unvarnished authenticity... The stories left him emotionally
drained, and it's no surprise, because he clearly poured everything
into this exceptional book. Donald McRae revitalises and
records the valour and hope in this moving, definitive
salute to a cause worth fighting for.' -- Keith Duggan * Irish
Times *
'Donald McRae is a magnificent sportswriter, and covering boxing
his speciality. By any measure, Storey's tale is an
extraordinary one, which McRae recounts with a novelist's
flair....remarkable' -- Will Gore * Spectator *
'In Sunshine or in Shadow is simply brilliant. You
feel touched by every page as you are taken on a crash course of
modern Irish history - boxing and political - and the emotion of it
all is shockingly magnetic.' -- Tris Dixon * Boxing Scene
*
'McRae spins an enthralling story of how a hard sport bought
hope in tough times...impossibly moving and bleakly funny'
-- Sarah Hughes * i newspaper *
'McRae is a fine writer and a brilliant interviewer.
These two talents coalesce to help him highlight the courage and
honour of the boxers and their coach.' -- Declan Ryan * Times
Literary Supplement *
'Donald McRae's superb new book' * Catholic Herald *
'Remarkable...extraordinary' * Belfast Evening
Telegraph *
'It's so vast and so much work went into it....it contains hundreds
of hours of interviews that Don McRae did in Belfast, across years
and years, with some of the most notoriously private people in the
world. It is really only a book that Donald McRae could have
written. I think it's a book that everyone should have on their
shelf....an incredible collection of tales.' -- Jarlath
Regan * An Irishman Abroad *
'In Sunshine or in Shadow is jaw-dropping at times,
brutally sad at others, an essentially typical Don McRae
sports book throughout. It's an astonishing life, an often
miraculous story. Exactly the sort of tale that has driven
Donald McRae's career for the past three and a half decades.' --
Malachy Clerkin * Irish Times *
'A golden era of boxing in Ulster - one punctuated with names such
as Barry McGuigan, Davy Larmour, Charlie Nash and Hugh Russell - is
deftly captured by Donald McRae in a remarkable tale of hope and
redemption' * Herald *
'A new book from Donald McRae is always something to celebrate. If
that new book is about boxing, then all the better. Locate that
book in Ireland and it jumps straight to the top of my want-to-read
list....As Brexit rushes closer and the possibility of a hard
border on the island of Ireland looms large, the story feels even
more poignant. I simply cannot recommend this book highly
enough.' * Sports Book Reviews *
'Poignant....fascinating' * Irish News *
'McRae has applied his effective, but nonetheless magical
approach to tell us how, against a backdrop of extreme violence and
murder, Gerry Storey created an oasis of peace and calm where young
men could learn the noble art and arm themselves with a skill
capable of guiding them out of Northern Ireland's extended
nightmare' * Sports Book of the Month *
'The author of eleven books, the latest, In Sunshine Or In
Shadow, McRae masterfully lifts the veil on the glitzy
world of sport and shines a light on the real-life humans who
populate its bright stages' * Sports Gazette *
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