by NRB | 1 Feb 2022 | Non-fiction |
As a single-volume history of the growth and development of Australian football, Australia’s Game has much to recommend it. When a book consists of 784 pages and 54 chapters, it’s a big book. But when it also contains 2517 endnotes and has a bibliography that includes...
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...
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