Collection: Blog


We need to talk about Christmas gifts
Buy your Christmas gift book now to make sure you receive it in time for Christmas 2022.

Australia's 2022 World Cup goalscorers: Craig Goodwin
The second of our exclusive extracts on Australia's World Cup goalscorers - this time Craig Goodwin.

Australia's 2022 World Cup goalscorers: Mathew Leckie
An exclusive extract on Mathew Leckie, 2022 World Cup goalscorer, from the Encyclopedia of Socceroos Centenary Edition 1922 to 2022 by Andrew Howe.

Australia's 2022 World Cup goalscorers: Mitch Duke
We profile Mitchell Duke, goalscorer against Tunisia at the 2022 World Cup, with an extract from Andrew Howe's Encyclopedia of Socceroos Centenary Edition.

Australia - you're spoilt!
The Encyclopedia of Socceroos Centenary Edition 1922 to 2022 by Andrew Howe is a magnificent piece of work - even more so than the first edition four-and-a-half years ago prior to the 2018 World Cup.

World Cup Reading List
A recommended reading list to keep you occupied during the down times of the 2022 World Cup.

A 'Mastermind' test for author Andrew Howe
We put the author of the 'Encyclopedia of Socceroos', Andrew Howe, to the test with a 'Mastermind'-style quiz.

The perfect Diwali gift!
This beautiful, bold, colourful food memoir includes 18 recipes personally selected by the Gujral family. It is a migrant story, a business story, and an intergenerational story all in one and is available now from us and all good bookstores.

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.

Seeking Emerging Women Writers
Emerging Women Writers initiative as part of the 2023 Football Writers Festival.


90 days to go
90 days to go until the 2022 World Cup, and we've got three fabulous and relevant reads - a fiction, a non-fiction and a book full of facts.


Big month for a small publisher
For a small, independent publisher, May was a big month. We had two books rolling off the presses and out into really good bookstores everywhere.

Socceroos turn 100 in June and we're celebrating!
Vegemite, Yankee Stadium, Vitamin D tablets, comic books, centre court at Wimbledon, the blender, and the BBC. Just some of the objects and institutions of our lives that turn 100 this year - along with the team we now know and love as the Socceroos. Join us as we celebrate with a book and football in the pub!

Hot Off the Pepper Press
Launch of Amanda Trenfield's memoir, When A Soulmate Says No, from our Pepper Press imprint.

Reading for Young Adults
Emeritus Professor John Maynard on Michael Fiddian's debut novel, The End of the Game.

