Well I ve had two books through the post this week and brought one myself the books are –
World cup wishes by Eshkol Nevo-the israeli writer is the grand son of a former israeli minister,the book follows for friends to france 1998 ,which was a great world cup the first truly global cup .it follows their journey through the traumas and bonds that have kept them together since they where kids ,Nevo got high praise for his last novel Homesick ,looking forward to this book ,as i start getting excited for the world cup .
Offside by Tom Palmer -this is the third in a series of books that follow Danny Harte a football fan and detective ,this time he travels to Ghana on the case of a corrupt agent ,this book is designed for young readers and the african football angle appealed to me when Sarah at bookrabbit offer it me ,plus i don’t read a lot of teen books so this will be a real change and again is wonderful for world cup build up .
Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges -well Argentine is a hot bed of football so ,a book by their greatest writer seemed apt ,Borges wrote truly unique prose hard to classify ,but without a doubt a huge influence on latin american and world lit .
Are you looking forward to the world cup ?
footnote –
Also in the post this week was my first ever Persephone biannual .The twice yearly magazine from Persephone books a great short story from Irene Nemirovsky from their new collection out soon ,also was lovely to see Claire at paperbackreader on the bloggers page ,deserved she does so much to promote this lovely company and there beautiful books .
I’m looking forward to the way that the world cup makes the shopping centres and public spaces less crowded! I’m not a fan of football, but my husband is, so I’ll have lots more time for reading!
i hope england does well it vring a feel good factor to the country ,stu
That’s so exciting that they mentioned Claire! I think the previous one did as well. I can’t wait for my copy to arrive.
I’m looking forward to the world cup, yes, though normally I don’t pay too much attention to football. But the world cup can be very exciting.
nice to see peoples hard work for a puiblisher get seen by the publisher ,stu
I myself am not a huge sports fan, though I do enjoy soccer (or football for you!) occasionally. I have to say though, I am more excited and might watch a few games this year if only because it is in South Africa and I was just there – I saw the new stadium in Cape Town, it is pretty incredible!
yes ,there doing a great job and wonderful for africa as a whole as it is a soccer made place , warmest stu
Seriously, I’m a huge sports fan and I love the world cup. I really can’t wait. It’s quite the carnival in my house during the competition.
i can’t wait ,am working on some more world cup related posts ,stu
Thank you, Stu 🙂
I had kind of forgotten about the world cup… I’m sure I’ll be following it at the time though.
welcome claire ,nice to see people getting feed back from publishers ,all the best stu