Karl Ove Knausgaard

Fredrik Ekelund

Don Bartlett

Seán Kinsella

[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.

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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.

[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.

[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.

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