Festival platform as Clavane and Cowley explore football and culture
Having done much to highlight the cultural significance of football in his fine book, Promised Land, it seems only fitting that Anthony Clavane has been given a literary platform from which to expand on the theme. He and Jason Cowley , the editor of the New Statesman, will be appearing at the Ilkley Literature Festival on Sunday (October 2nd) to explore football and culture in an event entitled Promised Land. Clavane’s book, the paperback version of which is subtitled A Northern Love Story sets the history of a football club -- Leeds United -- alongside the evolution of a city and its communities in a wonderfully crafted narrative that deservedly won a number of awards. Named Football Book of the Year in the National Sports Book Awards , it was subsequently awarded recognition as the overall Sports Book of the Year after a readers’ vote. Promised Land was also selected as Sports Book of the Year by the Radio Two Book Club . Cowley, former editor of Granta and of the Obse