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A cult novel about Dutch football.

Excerpts from a New England is a perceptive and wry analysis of Gareth Southgate's time as England manager, which included two European Championship finals and a World Cup semi-final. Acclaimed author David Winner cleverly places Southgate's legacy in the context of a period of political, social and cultural upheaval.

While clearing out his great aunt's midtown apartment after her death, author David Winner discovered artifacts of her storied existence: notes from opera stars, love letters and artifacts from the Middle East of the 1930's. His Aunt Dorle had been a co-founder of Angel Records and a prominent figure in the mid-century classical music world. But the more he learned about her world, the more complicated her story became, a twisted puzzle full of love and fascism, a record of a young woman grappling with her attraction to lovers with hair-raising political ties. A powerful work of family discovery, rooted in a bygone Midtown Manhattan and involving artists and politicians from around the world.

Offering an original look at English football, this title journeys to the heart of Englishness and sheds light on the true nature of a rapidly changing game that was never really meant to be beautiful. It also shows how Victorian sexual anxiety underlies England's many World Cup failures.

A unique World Cup diary from the author of Brilliant Orange and Those Feet