The Home Crowd Advantage
β Scribed by Aaronovitch, Ben
- Book ID
- 108865268
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 20 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
I don't normally put fiction on my blog but ahead of the publication of Foxglove Summer I thought I'd put this one up. After assidiously avoiding mention of the London Olympics to avoid dating my books Gollancz asked me to write a short story for the specialοΏ½edition of Rivers of London.
Since I was writing in advance of the actual 2012 Olympics I chose to write something that reflected back to the 'Austerity Olympics' of 1948 and as I researched I came across a particular basketball final that caught my eye...
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