With unprecedented insider access, the book investigates how ultras have grown into a fiercely political movement, embracing extremes on both the left and right fighting against the commercialisation of football and society – and against the attempts to control them by the authorities, who both covet and fear their power. In this book, James Montague goes underground to uncover the true face of this dissident force for the first time.ġ312: Among the Ultras tells the story of how the movement began and how it grew to become the global phenomenon that now dominates the stadiums from the Balkans and Buenos Aires. Yet they remain unknown: an anti-establishment force that is transforming both football and politics. A hugely visible and controversial part of the global game, their credo and aesthetic replicated in almost every league everywhere on earth, a global movement of extreme fandom and politics is also one of the largest youth movements in the world. An investigation into the extreme political gangs of world football. He writes for the New York Times, the Bleacher Report, World Soccer, and Delayed Gratification and has reported from over 80 different countries and unrecognised territories. You can see them, but you don't know them. 1312: Among the Ultras: A journey with the worlds most extreme fans. James Montague is an award-winning author and journalist from Chelmsford, Essex.
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Abrams is in the news right now as the director and co-author of the movie Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), but fans might not know of this book, published two years ago. Abrams, takes the Prize for Weirdest Novel and the one I found most physically difficult to read. This year I’ve read highly forgettable, beautifully written, distressing, hilarious and puzzling books. Abrams (Published by Mulholland Books, Little Brown Slipcase and package design by Hachette Book Group, Inc., 2013) 'These injuries include one blow to the forehead that must have rendered her unconscious. 'In the pathologist’s report Dr RIchard Jones noted blunt force injuries to the head of June Fox-Roberts that appeared to be sustained in life. He said: 'The defendant entered through an unlocked door disturbing Mrs Fox-Roberts who encountered him in the hallway. Mr Hipkin said Deeley was seen taking off his cap and shoes close to St Anne’s Drive, where Mrs Fox Roberts had lived since 1985. 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The brand new novel from the worldwide Number One bestselling author behind Nine Perfect Strangers and the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning HBO series Big Little Lies. Apples Never Fall follows the four Delaney siblings after the disappearance of their mother, Joy Delaney. I mix 13 shades of green, 5 shades of purple I don't need. I work with the paint, let the acrylic dry, and when it isn't right, I rework it again. The last time I painted, I was 21, the president was Black, I had more serotonin and I was less afraid of men. Raven Leilani: I've woken up from dreams where my hands are slick with oil and turpentine and lost the inspiration by the time I brushed my teeth. Tanzina: But the second reading was perfect. The first time she started reading, she flubbed the line a bit. I sat down with Raven Leilani to discuss Luster and asked if she would read a passage from the text. Instead, she writes Edie is human, stunningly, recognizably human. Edie is indeed a Black woman who fails a lot, but because Leilani does not ask us to adore or reject her, she wrote. Luster is the story of Edie, a Black woman in her 20s living in Brooklyn, who's making a bit of a mess as she seeks human connection, professional fulfillment, and artistic self-actualization. Tanzina Vega: ''I wanted to write a story about a Black woman who fails a lot.'' This is what Raven Leilani told The New York Times about her first novel. As Philip Pullman so succinctly puts it, Tove Jansson was a genius." - Ali Smith, The Guardian Her writing is all magical deception, her sentences simple and loaded the novel reads like looking through clear water and seeing, suddenly, the depth. "Jansson's brilliance is to create a narrative that seems, at least, to have no forward motion, to exist in lit moments, gleaming dark moments, like lights on a string, each chapter its own beautifully constructed, random-seeming, complete story. Der Rest ist Nüchternheit, Sturm, prekäres Gleichgewicht." - Monika Osberghaus, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung "Die Idylle ist in diesen Episoden so flüchtig wie die kurze Zeit im Frühsommer, in der das Moos blüht und die ganze Insel mit einem warmen, kaum sichtbaren Schleier überzieht.The UK (Sort Of) edition has a Foreword by Esther Freud.The US (NYRB Classics) edition has an Introduction by Kathryn Davis. General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the author Trying to meet all your book preview and review needs. |