by NRB | 18 Oct 2018 | Non-fiction |
The Football Solution is a history of the Richmond Football Club with a powerful political dimension. A week might be a long time in politics as Harold Wilson once said, but a fortnight is too short a time between Newspolls measuring voting intentions. The latter...
by NRB | 31 Oct 2017 | Non-fiction |
A rivetingly flawed biography of one of the most talented Australian Rules footballers to ever pull on a boot. Let’s begin with the flaws. This is a book with 55 chapters and books with so many chapters usually see me casting them aside – they’re just too bitty. It...
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