Karl Ove Knausgaard

Fredrik Ekelund

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Seán Kinsella

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Out of the World

The compulsive new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author

The Morning Star

The Wolves of Eternity

The Third Realm

Essays

In the Land of the Cyclops

Knausgaard Seasons Quartet Series by Karl Ove Knausgaard

From the Sunday Times Bestselling Author (Seasons Quartet 3)

Spring

Summer

From the Sunday Times Bestselling Author (Seasons Quartet 2)

Winter

Festive Tales for a Nordic Noël

A Scandinavian Christmas

From the Sunday Times Bestselling Author (Seasons Quartet 1)

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My Struggle Book 1

A Death in the Family

My Struggle Book 2

A Man in Love

My Struggle Book 3

Boyhood Island

My Struggle Book 4

Dancing in the Dark

My Struggle Book 5

Some Rain Must Fall

My Struggle Book 6

The End

The art of Edvard Munch

So Much Longing in So Little Space

Vintage Minis

Fatherhood

Home and Away

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[It is] fascinating, insightful... Engrossing.

Home and Away is deeply intelligent, enjoyable and sometimes funny.

An entirely engrossing exchange of ideas, affection and memory… [A] genuinely engaging two-hander of real affection and insight.

Knausgaard is a writer with an astonishing ability to elevate the prosaic… As a reading experience, Home and Away is diverting, indulgent and stealthily enjoyable. Just as it probably was to write.

At its core, Home and Away is a story about two men doing what they can to keep a friendship afloat, even from continents away.

For a book which, at heart, is no more than two friends chatting about football, there is a lot to like.

Their correspondence is, at times, very personal and the reader gets the impression that the two writers are connecting on a deeper level, able to express views and thoughts that they wouldn’t share with anyone else. It is this feeling that as a reader you are being welcomed into a lively conversation about politics, life and everything in between, which makes the book so enjoyable and engrossing.

It's fun and possibly a fruitful format for future tournaments.

It is worth having a read of this…to be reminded again of the joy of sport and how it adds colour and passion and pleasure to modern life.

An interesting and unusual study of the global appeal of football

They both love football. So the letters are about football but also lots of other things. It reminds you that watching football is about lots of other things too… I really enjoyed this.

Writing the Beautiful Game

Karl Ove Knausgaard and fellow writer Fredrik Ekelund kick around thoughts and ideas on football, life, art and politics. 
 
Karl Ove Knausgaard is sitting at home in Skåne with his wife, four small children and a dog. He is watching football on TV and falls asleep in front of the set. He likes 0-0 draws, cigarettes, coffee and Argentina. 
 
Fredrik Ekelund is away in Brazil, where he plays football on the beach and watches matches with friends. Fredrik loves games that end up 4-3 and teams that play beautiful football. He likes caipirinhas and Brazil. 
 
In Home and Away, two writers use football and the 2014 World Cup in Brazil to reflect on life and death, art and politics, class and literature and the most important question: was this the best football championship ever?

Karl Ove Knausgaard and fellow writer Fredrik Ekelund kick around thoughts and ideas on football, life, art and politics

Karl Ove Knausgaard (Author) Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece all over the world. From A Death in the Family to The End, the novels move through childhood into adulthood and, together, form an enthralling portrait of human life. Knausgaard has been awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, the Brage Prize and the Jerusalem Prize. His work, which also includes the Seasons Quartet and the Morning Star series (The Morning Star, The Wolves of Eternity and The Third Realm) is published in thirty-five languages. Fredrik Ekelund (Author) Fredrik Ekelund is a Swedish novelist, playwright and translator. He won the Fackföreningsrörelsens Ivar Lo Prize in 2009 for his novel M/S Tiden, hailed as ‘the year’s best Swedish novel’ by Svenska Dagbladet. He has played as a striker in the Swedish authors’ national football team.

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