Kirjahaku

This is one supporter's story about Fulham Football Club's dramatic 2016-17 season in The Championship . Interwoven with memories of the club's past and football history, it's a fan's perspective of the highs and lows of a memorable season. Laced with humour, anecdote, frustration and elation, the author lays bare his love of London's oldest club while maintaining a wary eye on its failings. The book captures not only the oscillating emotions of games, but travelling with supporters, media coverage and even the effect on his own domestic life. It's a rollercoaster, entertaining journey as Fulham push for promotion to The Premier League.... Roland Jaquarello has been a Fulham supporter since 1956, when the legendary Johnny Haynes let him watch training. He's a theatre/radio, Director/Producer, who's worked for The Royal Court, Abbey Theatre and BBC. His other publication is Memories of Development: My Times In Irish Theatre and Broadcasting.

Rank Insubordination is a comic and dramatic novel set during a year in a boys' English public school in the mid-1950s, at the time of the cold war, the Suez Crisis and the end of empire.An austere headmaster struggles to deal with growing pupil rebellion, led by the school's Lenin.A despotic monitor, desperately competes with the rugby captain forthe amorous attention of a young French woman.A junior housemaster, renowned for his punishment floggings, gets into a tangled relationship with an assertive matron.Parents struggle with the school's hierarchical ethos.As serious unrest ferments, everybody grapples with the post-war legacy and a future with continental Europe.It's a lively story about a seminal period in the past; one with a modern resonance.