Harry Pearson: 10 books
A Tall Man In A Low Land
Some Time Among the Belgians
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Most British travel writers head south for a destination that is hot, exotic, dangerous or all three. Harry Pearson chose to head in the opposite direction for a country which is damp, safe and of legendary banality: Belgium. But can any nation whose most famous monument is a statue of a small boy...
Hound Dog Days
One Dog and his Man: a Story of North Country Life and Canine Contentment
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
A decade and one dog after penning the bestselling Racing Pigs And Giant Marrows, and inspired by the purchase of his new hound, a petit basset-griffon Vendeen called Little Man, Harry Pearson returns to the world of stalking, ferreting and beating with this ramble through the countryside.
Harry...
Racing Pigs And Giant Marrows
Travels around the North Country Fairs
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Following his acclaimed book about football in the north-east,THE FAR CORNER, Harry Pearson vowed that his next project would not involve hanging around outdoors on days so cold that itinerant dogs had to be detached from lamp-posts by firemen. It would be about the summer: specifically, about a summer...
Achtung Schweinehund!
A Boy's Own Story of Imaginary Combat
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
This is a book about men and war. Not real conflict but war as it has filtered down to generations of boys and men through toys, comics, games and movies. Harry Pearson belongs to the great battalion of British men who grew up playing with toy soldiers - refighting World War II - and then stopped...
Connie
The Marvellous Life of Learie Constantine
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Winner of the MCC Book of the Year Award
His father was a first-class cricketer, his grandfather was a slave.
Born in rural Trinidad in 1901, Learie Constantine was the most dynamic all-round cricketer of his age (1928-1939) when he played Test cricket for the West Indies and club cricket...
The Far Corner
A Mazy Dribble Through North-East Football
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
A book in which Wilf Mannion rubs shoulders with The Sunderland Skinhead: recollections of Len Shakleton blight the lives of village shoppers: and the appointment of Kevin Keegan as manager of Newcastle is celebrated by a man in a leather stetson, crooning 'For The Good Times' to the accompaniment...
Slipless in Settle
A Slow Turn Around Northern Cricket
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
Slipless in Settle is a sentimental journey around club cricket in the north of England, a world far removed from the clichéd lengthening-shadows-on-the-village-green image of the summer game. This is hardcore cricket played in former pit villages and mill towns. Winner of the 2011 MCC Cricket Book...
Dribble!
The Unbelievable Encyclopaedia of Football
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Ten years in the making, Dribble! is an A-Z of credulity-twanging facts and stories about what Pele once memorably dubbed 'my bloody job'. It includes definitive explanations of everyday phrases such as 'the magic of the cup' and 'low centre of gravity'; a complete guide to becoming a terrace character...
The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman
A Bone-shaking Tour through Cycling’s Flemish Heartlands
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2020
Cycling is wildly popular all over Belgium, but in the northern, Dutch-speaking half of the country it is part of the psyche. Flanders is the size of East Anglia with population a tenth of that of Great Britain, yet this small corner of north-west Europe has produced eight winners of the Tour de France,...
by Rickert Althaus, Adam Brown, Charles S. Bullock III
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
John Engler, former Governor of Michigan, once claimed that redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take. Academicians and political leaders alike, however, have regularly debated the ideal way by to redistrict national and state legislatures. Rather than being the pure process...