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Booktopia Blues?
If you've been caught with an unfulfilled order of one of our books by the closure of online bookseller Booktopia, please contact us.
Our Olympic books
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.
Recognising the first Australian team to win an Olympic Gold...
Our latest book is another Olympics non-fiction about some forgotten Gold Medalists, the 1988 Australian Women's Hockey team. Ladies First - The Story of Australia's First Olympic Hockey Gold Medal is a compelling account of the remarkable journey undertaken by the Australian women's hockey team at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games.
2024 Football Writers' Festival - The Changemakers
The theme of this year's Football Writers' Festival on 5-6 October - the fifth! - is CHANGEMAKERS.
The people, incidents, and events that have helped change our game—those from the past, the present, and those shaping the future.
50 years ago today
Who is Charyl Chappuis?
Passion, revolution and glory
For many, South America epitomises most of what we love about football. Tales of South American Football - Passion, Revolution and Glory by Jorge Knijnik weaves the fabric of culture and sport in 13 chapters that give the reader a path into the region's modern history and social realities.