This is a book about men and war. Not real conflict but war as it has filtered down to generations of boys and men through toys, comics, games, and movies. Harry Pearson belongs to the great battalio
A decade and one dog after penning Racing Pigs And Giant Marrows, and inspired by the purchase of his new hound, a petit basset-griffon Vendeen called Little Man, Harry Pearson returns to the world of
A book in which Wilf Mannion rubs shoulders with The Sunderland Skinhead, recollections of Len Shakleton blight the lives of village shoppers, and the appointment of Kevin Keegan as manager of Newcas
Can any nation whose most famous monument is a statue of a small boy urinating really be that dull? Harry Pearson livedIn Belgiumfor several months, burying himself in the local culture.
Ten years in the making,?this A-to-Z of?incredible facts and stories about what Pele once memorably dubbed "my bloody job," includes definitive explanations of everyday phrases such as "the magic of t
Winner of the MCC Book of the Year AwardHis father was a first-class cricketer, his grandfather was a slave.Born in rural Trinidad in 1901, Learie Constantine was the most dynamic all-round cricketer
The essential rules and tactics of centuries-old schoolboy and schoolgirl pursuits have evolved complex traditions and customs unintelligible to the casual observer. Luckily, this hilarious essential
