Pocket Money

by Gordon Burn (Author)

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  Paperback
  2008

  $3.45

  Following the 1985 final between Dennis Taylor and Steve Davis, Britain found itself in the grip of a new sporting obsession. In one corner was Barry Hearn and his Romford Mafia - Davis, Taylor and Griffiths - and in the other were the bad boys - Higgins, White and Knowles - threatening the game's good name, and its earning potential.

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  Paperback
  1992

  $3.45

  Gordon Burn spent a year travelling with the professional snooker circus, from Hong Kong and China to out-of-season seaside resorts in the North of England and cliff-hanging finals in Sheffield. In this book he records the wheeling and dealing, the intense rivalries, the petty jealousies, the jubilation and heartbreak of personalities such as Stephen Hendry, Jimmy White, Steve Davis and Alex Higgins. Burn won the Whitbread Prize for the Best First Novel of 1991 with Alma Cogan .

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  Hardcover
  1986

  $3.60