The "Beatles", Football and Me

Describes the author's extraordinary life, from growing up on a Carlisle council estate in the 1950s and his student days at Durham to his introduction to Fleet Street, his enduring obsession with football and memorabilia, and the many fascinating characters he has met.

Hunter Davies is one of the most respected writers in the country. THE GLORY GAME is a footballing classic still in print some 30 years since its original publication but Hunter is also a successful novelist and distinguished biographer, whose subjects include The Beatles, Wayne Rooney and Paul Gascoigne. Now, though, he describes his own extraordinary life, from growing up on a Carlisle council estate in the 1950s and his student days at Durham to his introduction to Fleet Street, his enduring obsession with football and memorabilia, and the many fascinating characters he has met, interviewed and written about over the last 40 years. It is also the intimate portrait of his marriage to teenage sweetheart Margaret Forster, herself a well-known novelist. Full of wonderful observations, warm humour and colourful anecdote - a memoir to treasure.

 

Margaret Lynch

Witty and interesting, I enjoyed this from beginning to end.

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ISBN	755314034
ISBN13	9780755314034
Publisher	Headline Review
Format	Paperback
Publication date	28/06/2007
Pages	352
Weight (grammes)	270
Published in	United Kingdom
Height (mm)	197
Width (mm)	128