Writer, specialising in sports history
Author of the ebook A Devilish Pastime, a history of the various forms of football (originally published in print as A Develyshe Pastime, SportsBooks, 2009). Has also contributed articles to When Saturday Comes, and various websites including TimeTravel-Britain.com and Buzzle.com.
14/05/2019
After a mere 7 years🤨, I've set up a Twitter account for my ebook A Devilish Pastime. Hope to see you there ... ⚽🏉🏈
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The 2017 update of A Devilish Pastime is now also available on Smashwords, and from Apple (iTunes), Barnes & Noble, Kobo and Inktera. Links here ...
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A Devilish Pastime has been updated, re-edited and generally spruced up for 2017. Latest version is available on Amazon and Smashwords, and should soon be shipped to other outlets (watch this space). And the website now has its own domain, and has also been revamped: http://www.adevilishpastime.com/
Football history ebook | A Devilish Pastime A Devilish Pastime – A history of football in all its forms. Ebook by Graham Hughes. Traces the history of all forms of football: Soccer | Rugby | American football | Canadian football | Gaelic football | Australian Rules.
06/05/2014
Apple types! A Devilish Pastime is now available for your iPhone / iPad / iPod touch / Mac, via iBooks/iTunes - just follow this link.
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18/11/2013
"Enthralling", says Amazon reviewer celtictraveller "locust559". Thanks, Celt!
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Interesting results from the giveaway of A Devilish Pastime on Kindle during the week just ended, bearing in mind that it's only available in English. Numbers of copies downloaded, by Amazon site: Germany 43, US 33, UK 19, Canada 1, Japan 1, others 0. ???
22/09/2013
Free on Kindle all through this week, Monday to Friday ...
A Devilish Pastime: A History of Football in all its Forms Where did football come from? How did it get to be so popular? And why can’t we, across the English-speaking world, even agree on what the word ‘football’ means?A Devilish Pastime (the title, by the way, is explained in the first chapter) tells the full story of how the footb...
Another update ...
18/10/2012
Better late than never, my book now has a website ...
A Devilish Pastime: A History of Football In All Its Forms Ebook - A Devilish Pastime - A History of Football In All Its Forms
26/08/2012
Now also on the Sony Reader Store.
A Devilish Pastime: A History of Football in all its Forms by Graham Hughes:: Reader Store A look at the long, rich history of the various football sports: soccer, rugby, American and Canadian football, Gaelic football and Australian Rules. It traces the origins of the football-like games of the distant past, through to the growth of the sports that have become such a big part of modern l...
A (fairly old) review of the print version of my book, complete with strange characters instead of apostrophes and quotation marks.
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04/07/2012
And now on the WH Smith website, though I'm not quite sure how it got there(!) ...
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