Winner of the Somerset Maugham and William Hill Sports Book of the Year Awards To be reissued with a new paperback cover treatment Paperback edition has already been reprinted nine times 'A frantic, very funny, urban quest' Simon Garfield, Mail on Sunday 'A book of unexpected brilliance...subtle, funny, stimulating and original' Patrick French
Robert Twigger won the Newdigate prize for poetry in 1985. He is the author of Angry White Pyjamas, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, Big Snake, The Extinction Club, Being a Man and Voyageur.
A frantic, very funny, urban quest. - Mail on Sunday - Simon GarfieldA book of unexpected brilliance. It is subtle, funny, stimulating and original - a rites-of-passage story, an explanation of an alien culture, and an inspiring work of philosophy - Patrick FrenchHis fine eye for eccentricities makes this an entertaining travelogue - The ObserverA rattling good yarn and very funny into the bargain - Independent on Sunday - Tim HulseThis is a splendidly written adventure, something sane at last on the craziness of martial arts - Independent on SundayHis explanation of how to come to terms with intense pain should be read to every footballer who has ever writhed about in agony after a kick on the shin... It is a clever, enthralling book - Daily Mail - Ian WooldridgeBrilliant ... everyone should read it - Late Review - Tony ParsonsWonderfully oddball ... Here is a cult book all right, which could do for Japan and the martial arts what Hornby did for Highbury and the football terraces - Guardian - Frank Keating
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