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Author: Anna Krien
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Imprint: Yellow Jersey Press
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.203kg
ISBN: 9780224100038
ISBN 10: 0224100033
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 06 August 2015
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Extraordinary and necessary... Though it's an Australian story, it's relevant to all countries with testosterone-fuelled professional team sports that apparently encourage a sense of sexual entitlement -- Chris Maume Independent For every superstar, club CEO, boundary rider, bar-propper and park footballer, it should be mandatory reading. Sunday Age [Krien] writes honestly and brilliantly. Night Games is a book that was begging to be written. Readers should exult that Krien got there first. Big Issue One of the most incredible works of investigative non-fiction that I have ever read. Krien is nuanced and fiercely intelligent and every paragraph is addictive. Readings Monthly Heady mix of courtroom drama and narrative journalism... Not for the fainthearted, but highly compelling Shortlist
This is powerful, important writing, and Krien shows her workings throughout -- Tim Lewis * Observer * Haunting ... arresting... devastating. A challenging, necessary assault on misogynistic ""jock culture"". Its arrival in Britain could hardly be more appositely timed in light of the Ched Evans case * The Times * Jaw-dropping ... illuminating. Krien shines a light inside the locker room and beyond. * Sport Magazine * It is a challenging, sometimes jarring but necessary assault on misogynistic “jock culture” -- Matt Dickinson * The Times * Extraordinary and necessary… Though it’s an Australian story, it’s relevant to all countries with testosterone-fuelled professional team sports that apparently encourage a sense of sexual entitlement -- Chris Maume * Independent * Krien finds no neat answers in Night Games, only grey areas, but it is the wisdom and balance of her writing that capitvates -- Simon Briggs * Daily Telegraph * Sobering and necessary -- Ben East * Metro * For every superstar, club CEO, boundary rider, bar-propper and park footballer, it should be mandatory reading. * Sunday Age * [Krien] writes honestly and brilliantly. Night Games is a book that was begging to be written. Readers should exult that Krien got there first. * Big Issue * One of the most incredible works of investigative non-fiction that I have ever read. Krien is nuanced and fiercely intelligent and every paragraph is addictive. * Readings Monthly *
For every superstar, club CEO, boundary rider, bar-propper and park footballer, it should be mandatory reading. Sunday Age [Krien] writes honestly and brilliantly. Night Games is a book that was begging to be written. Readers should exult that Krien got there first. Big Issue One of the most incredible works of investigative non-fiction that I have ever read. Krien is nuanced and fiercely intelligent and every paragraph is addictive. Readings Monthly Fearless, balanced and powerful. Adelaide Advertiser Extraordinary and necessary... Though it's an Australian story, it's relevant to all countries with testosterone-fuelled professional team sports that apparently encourage a sense of sexual entitlement -- Chris Maume Independent
Author Information
Born in Australia in 1979, Anna Krien is an investigative reporter and prizewinning author of Into the Woods and Night Games, She is only the second woman to have won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award, which she won for Night Games, which also won the British Sports Book Awards New Writer of the Year Award in 2015.
