For anybody going to Hunslet for the cup tie on Sunday you should visit their club shop. On sale in there are some interesting books about rugby league and that number includes three novels.
Rugby Football: A United Game. (This is based on the idea of what might have happened if the northern clubs had been in the majority in 1895)
Braver Than All The Rest. (A Mother's fight to give her disabled rugby league loving son a decent life).
Two Seasons (The fifth in a series of novels with a background of work, family, old friends and rugby league in 2002 and 2003 and inspired by the old saying about work that "They could write a book about this place. It would be a best seller)
Plus
Heading For The Line. (A fan's guide to the grounds of all the professional, semi professional and National Conference League clubs and NRL clubs.
Rugby's Berlin Wall (The divide between League and Union from 1895 to 1995)
Snuff Out The Moon (The history of floodlit rugby, starting in 187icon_cool.gif
For those who are not going, all these books have been published by London League Publications. More details are shown on their web site at
www.llpshop.co.uk Click on books and then fiction for the first three.
Most are also available as E books through Amazon.