A Book of Two Halves: New Football Short Stories

Overview:

• Title: A Book of Two Halves: New Football Short Stories
• Author: Nicholas Royle
• Year: 1997
• ISBN-10: 0575400978
• Publisher: Indigo
• Price: £5.99
• Pages: 288
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Type: Anthology
• Title Reference: A Book of Two Halves: New Football Short Stories
• Notes:
  • New edition of this anthology of 23 stories and three poems associated with the theme of football.
  • Only the items of speculative character or by authors above the genre threshold are indexed for this entry (note: Christopher Kenworthy's "Them Belgiums" on pp. 15-24 is nongenre, but the author might turn out to be above threshold).
  • The copyright of the compilation is likely assigned for the year 1996 to the editor.
  • The copyright of the respective content items is likely assigned for the year 1996 to their authors.
  • There likely are short notes on the authors at the end of each story.
  • The essay that in a usual anthology would be the foreword, the introduction or the afterword is here published as the 'half-time' on pp. 159-162.
  • The pieces are organised in three departments, 'First 45' (pp. 9-158), 'Half-Time' (pp. 159-162), and 'Second 45' (pp. 163-288); the three poems are by John Hegley and are subsumed under the heading 'Hat-trick', but only one of them is of speculative content.
  • Content not indexed for this entry appears on pp. 15-47, 59-82, 132-144, 191-219, 225-245, 267 and 270 & 271.
  • This entry is for the initial printing.
  • A dedication appears on p. 5 (p. 6 is blank).
  • The table of contents is printed on p. 7; short acknowledgements are on p. 8.
  • The cover art is credited to Chris Moore/Artist Partners on the back cover; the price is also on the back cover.
  • Data from OCLC, a later edition with the same page count (and the likely same organisation of the items) & the first edition; month of publication from Amazon.co.uk.