Luath Press Rights Catalogue 2024
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Non-Fiction<br />
committed to publishing well written books worth reading 3<br />
Home Game<br />
MEL YOUNG & PETER BARR<br />
With foreword by VAL McDERMID<br />
9781804250853<br />
March <strong>2024</strong><br />
Paperback<br />
198x129mm<br />
336pp<br />
£9.99<br />
WSJA Football<br />
B/W photographs<br />
This new edition is being published to tie in<br />
with the release of the Netflix film – inspired<br />
by the Homeless World Cup – The Beautiful<br />
Game, starring Bill Nighy and Micheal Ward,<br />
and directed by Thea Sharrock (Me Before You),<br />
streaming from 29th March <strong>2024</strong>.<br />
An inspirational account of the story behind the Homeless World Cup since its birth in<br />
2003.<br />
Home Game follows the global phenomenon, telling the stories of the players and some<br />
of the tournaments biggest supporters. It provides an invaluable insight into one of the<br />
world’s most urgent problems whilst showing how a non-profit organisation uses the<br />
power of football to tackle it.<br />
The Homeless World Cup... puts on the agenda that homelessness is a global issue.<br />
We all love football and we all hate homelessness – it's a no brainer.<br />
IRVINE WELSH, novelist and ambassador for the Homeless World Cup<br />
All over the world, we've got to end homelessness. Everyone should have a home.<br />
It's a right and not a privilege.<br />
ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU, at the Homeless World Cup in cape town (2006)<br />
MEL YOUNG is President and co-founder of the Homeless World Cup and is<br />
recognised as one of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs.<br />
PETER BARR is a Trustee of the Homeless World Cup Foundation. He is a<br />
journalist with 40 years’ experience working in Hong Kong, Singapore and<br />
Scotland.
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