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2025 Manly Writers' Festival

2025 Manly Writers' Festival

What better way to find out more about your favourite books or get them signed than to join us at the 2025 Manly Writers' Festival from 28-30 March 2025?

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It's 'Booktober': want to have a chat about a really good book?

It's 'Booktober': want to have a chat about a really...

It's 'Booktober': want to have a chat about a really good book?

Then join us at one of our book launches or author talks this 'Booktober'.

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Our reading picks for Father's Day

Our reading picks for Father's Day

Whether your dad is a football enthusiast, a sports history buff, someone who loves a gripping novel or just a great read about people, we're happy to share a selection of books that make the perfect gift. 

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RIPPA! is ripper football fiction

RIPPA! is ripper football fiction

Our second release in June was RIPPA! the second football novel from P.J. Laverty.

Set in the late 1980s -  after Craig Johnston but before the likes of Mark Viduka, Harry Kewell, Tim Cahill, et al made their names in English football - it is about Joey Rippa, a young football-playing surf-loving, pot-smoking, guitar-strumming 19-year-old from coastal Western Australia who is 'discovered' by the manager of West Ham while on a pre-season trip to Perth. 

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Women in sport, football, business, and publishing

Women in sport, football, business, and publishing

Earlier this month on International Women's Day we released three books which further demonstrate our commitment to women: women in sport, women in football, women in business and, of course, women in literature and publishing.
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November is World Cup month at Fair Play Publishing!

November is World Cup month at Fair Play Publishing!

40 days to go to the 2022 World Cup, and 40 days until we unleash our World Cup book offerings.
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How much do you love reading?

How much do you love reading?

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Football, Fiction, Life - and a new Gift Card

Football, Fiction, Life - and a new Gift Card

It's been a busy year for us at Fair Play Publishing. We've published eight books during an extended Covid lockdown, taking our total to 26 books on football that wouldn't have existed without us. Some might think a lockdown would make it easy - what else is there to do besides work?
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