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Digital Reads A Curse For True Love : the thrilling final book in the Once Upon a Broken Heart series Harry Pearson has a wry, affectionate look at these lesser-known British sports...a light, amusing read' Country Life No Pie, No Priest! combines sports reporting, travelogue and history, and features a cast of bucolic eccentrics and many deeply impenetrable regional accents. No Pie, No Priest! combines sports reporting, travelogue and history, and features a cast of bucolic eccentrics and many deeply impenetrable regional accents.
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Harry Pearson was born in 1961 in a village near Middlesbrough. He was educated by kindly Quakers. An early attempt to become a journalist foundered because his spelling wasn’t good enough. After many years working in jobs that required overalls or paper hats, his life was altered for ever by reading an article about Alan Foggan in the football magazine When Saturday Comes. His books include The Far Corner (shortlisted for the 1995 William Hill Sports Book of the Year); A Tall Man in a Low Land and Achtung Schweinehund!. Harry has written for When Saturday Comes for twenty years and for many years was a weekly columnist for the Guardian. If there was a sporting content involving nothing more than two flies crawling up a wall, you could rely on Harry Pearson to write about it with hilarity and elan. Which is handy, as in “No Pie, No Priest” Pearson sets off on a trek around Britain (and County Armagh) exploring the country’s most offbeat and eccentric sports. Ok so I’m in Waterstones bookshop shortly before an overseas holiday and looking for a sports book as one of the two reads I’ll read on holiday. This seemed the most interesting out of those I hadn’t yet read. I like sports books and I love learning new information so go for thisMargot Robbie stars as the eponymous fashion doll in this live-action adventure directed by Greta... It’s difficult to recommend this book highly enough…Harry Pearson is so effortlessly funny that I found myself snorting aloud while I read this on the Tube. Indeed, he’s so engaging that it’s hard not to want to conduct one’s own tour to catch some of these games before it’s too late' Hive Store Ltd 2020. (hive.co.uk) is registered in England. Company number: 07300106. VAT number: 444950437. Writer Harry Pearson takes a warm and witty journey around Britain in pursuit of the lost folk sports that somehow still linger on in the […]
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The Telegraph values your comments but kindly requests all posts are on topic, constructive and respectful. Please review our WSC regular Harry Pearson takes a warm and witty journey around Britain in pursuit of the lost folk sports that somehow still linger on in the glitzy era of the Premier League and Sky Sports to find out how and why they have survived and to meet the characters who keep them going. Collective madness: contestants take part in the annual cheese-rolling championships in GloucestershireHarry Pearson has a wry, affectionate look at these lesser-known British sports...a light, amusing read'
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