Home truths from Storey

Yorkshire Post | October 29, 2004 | Copyright

"It seems to be quite popular with amateur groups and quite a bit around the world."

Nick Ahad

These are the words of David Storey, playwright, novelist, Booker Prize winner and screenwriter.

A more modest summation of a career you could not possibly hear. Storey's first novel, This Sporting Life, was the one which thrust him into the limelight. Sticking to the old adage of writing what he knew, Storey based the novel on a rugby league player - the author himself was a professional player for Leeds, playing while studying at the Slade School of Art in London. The book was later adapted and ...

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