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Steven Kay

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1889 books (www.1889books.co.uk) is a small independent publisher through which I publish quality reads of any genre that grab me: books that do more than entertain: books that make a point or make you think, books for grown-ups not kidults. I am a the self-proclaimed, world expert on football fiction and fiction set in Sheffield and blog about a range of topics at http://stevek1889.blogspot.co.uk/.
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The Evergreen in red and white

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Historical Football Stories

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Football fans won’t read fiction?

A version of this article was first published in Italian literary magazine Inutile in April 2014:

Aspiring novelists rarely get any feedback from agents or publishers but one to whom I am indebted told me that a novel based around football isn’t marketable because football fans won’t read fiction; they lap up biographies and autobiographies (almost entirely ghost-written, and works of fiction in th Read more of this blog post »
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Published on April 24, 2014 12:37 Tags: football-fiction-rabbi-howell

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