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Dave Whelan: Playing to Win
Foreword by Steve Bruce
Few figures in British business or sport have enjoyed Dave Whelan’s success. As a football man he played in all four divisions. As a businessman he created JJB Sports, one the country’s leading high street brands. And as chairman of Wigan Athletic he’s taken his club all the way from the Third Division to the Premiership.
Sometimes tragic, frequently controversial and always heartfelt, Playing to Win is his story and lifts the lid on a life lived on the pitch and in the boardroom to explain how a hungry kid from Wigan’s backstreets became a national success and a local hero.
Dave will be busy promoting the book at signings nationally and locally, and, as a man unafraid to speak his mind, is available and ideal for TV, radio and press interviews.
ISBN: 9781845134617 £18.99 Available 20 August 2009
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Byron Rogers
Byron Rogers completes a remarkable and singular biographical trilogy with his new book. Simon Jenkins acclaimed The Last Englishman, Rogers’ biography of the maverick publisher and novelist J.L. Carr, as “a minor masterpiece of social history”; The Man Who Went Into the West, about the Welsh poet R.S. Thomas, was hailed by Craig Brown as “a biography touched by genius”, and awarded the prestigious James Tait Black biography prize.
There remained only one possible subject for a third study of a thoroughly idiosyncratic life: B.D. Rogers himself. As readers of Rogers’ earlier books like An Audience with an Elephant will know, Rogers’ territory is peopled with the strange, the hilarious, the eccentric, and the mad – but also explored with an immensely compassionate sensibility. His own life is no different, as he takes us from night shifts on a Sheffield evening newspaper to writing speeches for Prince Charles, and from the groundbreaking marketing initiative for his first book that saw a Northamptonshire butcher offer a free pound of sausages with every copy sold, to the eerie and yet utterly absorbing case of the man who impersonated him in order to seduce women with alarming success.
Me: The Authorised Biography will be ranked alongside Lorna Sage and Diana Athill as one of the great modern memoirs. It is unlike any other book you’ll have read – as, of course, have been all Rogers’ books.
9781845134310 £16.99 Available 16 July 2009
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Me: The Authorised Biography
Byron Rogers is the author of two highly praised biographies for Aurum, of singular, indeed maverick, literary figures – the novelist J.L. Carr and the poet R.S. Thomas – MORE |
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Shelina Zahra Janmohamed Wins Award
Love in a Headscarf by Shelina Zahra Janmohamed won the award for Best Published Non-Fiction Book at the Muslim Writer’s Awards which took place at the Park Lane Hilton Hotel on 27 May. Funded by Innovate Arts, a non-profit organisation set up to encourage creative expression within economically deprived communities, the eleven awards recognise the breadth and quality of literary talent within the UK's Muslim population.
Shelina co-hosted the event and beat off stiff competition from Kamila Shamsie’s Burnt Shadows published by Bloomsbury and Penguin’s The Road from Damascus by Robin Yassin-Kassab to scoop an award for the second year running.
Guest speakers for the evening included Sadiq Khan MP and Dragon’s Den’s James Caan.
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