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FOUL AND FAIR

Stev e Couch

ISBN 978-1-83574-023-1

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Publication: 25 JULY 2024
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ISBN: 9781835740231
Price: £9.99
Binding: Paperback

Format: 216 x 138 mm
Extent: 384 pp
Illustrated: None
Thema: FBA Fiction

Author location: Bournemouth
Comparative title: 9781915853233 Dead Man Singing

• Foul and Fair follows U12s football coach,
James Hogan, as he struggles to retain his
sense of right and wrong while taking on a rival
manager in the murky world of children’s
grassroots football.
• Will appeal to fans of Nick Hornby, Christopher
Brookmyre and David Nicholls.
• The second novel by Steve Couch, the author
of Dead Man Singing.
Steve Couch lives in Bournemouth with his wife and two sons. He is
an FA Level 2 football coach, and a former team manager and club It’s not all about winning, but…
chairman of West Moors Youth Football Club. When not writing, he James Hogan’s career as an English teacher is in tatters.
coaches small children in local schools and large men at Man v Fat All he has left is the boys’ football team he coaches, but
Football in Bournemouth. Foul and Fair is his rival manager Kieran Butcher threatens to take that away
second novel. too. After years of doing things the right way, he is
determined to come out on top, by any means necessary.
But just how far will James go to succeed?

Single mother and police officer Hayley Birnham is worried
about her career, her son, and the string of unusual crimes
connected to the local football community. Fair is foul and
foul is fair as James and Hayley try to balance doing the
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