An account of growing up to be a fanatical football supporter.

Presents the story of a girl who needs to slow down, to find herself, to fall in love, and discover what an iron is for... Samantha is a high-powered lawyer in London. She has no home life, and cares about getting a partnership. She thrives on the pressure and adrenalin. Until one day... she makes a mistake, so huge, that it'll wreck her career.

Set partly in London and partly in America, this novel follows the fortunes of a small group of the young and the single. They have, it seems, infinite opportunity, but are bedevilled by indecision, by the breadth of choice, by the inflexibility of tradition, by the consequences of their parents' careless marital history.

A modern football fairytale and an extraordinary story of an Italian village and its football team's rise to the top against seemingly impossible odds.

A student in 1950s South Africa has long been plotting an escape from his country. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when he arrives in the real world, he will be prepared to experience life to its full intensity. Arriving at last in London, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance.