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Slogging The Slavs: A Paranormal Cricket Tour From The Baltic To The Bosphorus
Angus Bell, has recently published his new book, Slogging the Slavs. The non fiction story links sport with travel and takes the reader on a paranormal cricket tour from The Baltic to The Bosphorus. The book has been seen on Serbian TV and has received some great reviews including this from Hugo Rifkind of The Times, “Very funny. Dave Gorman meets Andrew Flintoff in clothes borrowed from Billy Connolly” Synopsis Scotsman Angus Bell is innocently working for the Montreal Mafia when a Canadian psychic tells him an infant ghost is feeding him ideas. He’s told he’ll be leaving North America to embark on a travelling media project. When the words “cricket” and “Ukraine” pop into his head, he uncovers a hidden cricketing world across central and Eastern Europe. From tournaments on ice in Estonia to university leagues in the crumbling Crimea; from a Croatian military island to communist Belarus, Slavs are playing the Englishman’s game. 24-year-old Angus sets off in his Skoda to smack them all for six. With fingerless ‘Tamil Tigers’ in Prague, a bomb plotter in the Austrian Alps, mafiosos and an MI6 secret agent making the teamsheets, Angus soon discovers a shadowy side of Slavic cricket. He becomes the first man to hit a ball between continents, and ends up captain of an international cricket team. Between games, he is pursued by KGB, becomes embroiled in a drugs-bust on the Midnight Express and seeks emergency treatment from a Romanian dentist. His passengers include a Guatemalan anarchist, a Ukrainian chicken and an Irish tobacco farmer who played cricket and rugby for Rhodesia. Slogging The Slavs is a hilarious and unique traveller’s tale, taking the reader through Balkan minefields, border bribes and Sarajevo graveyards at 2 a.m. It redefines the spirit of cricket, and will make the game’s most sworn enemy a fan. About The Author Angus Bell is a 26-year-old Scotsman with a First-Class Degree in English, Flying Saucers and Space Studies. He has visited 38 countries, and has written for the South African Sunday Times, Inside Sport in Australia, the US Student Traveler, Cricinfo in India, The Wisden Cricketer, Fat Controller Magazine and All Out Cricket. Slogging The Slavs is his first book. He now plays cricket in Montreal, Canada, where he lives with his girlfriend Candy and pet rabbit Usagi. For more articles and photos from his travels and misadventures, visit www.angusjjbell.com.
Fat Controller Media is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of emerging young talent. The company was founded in 2004 by a team of Durham University graduates frustrated with the quality of grassroots media. Slogging The Slavs is Fat Controller Media’s first book. We also publish the largest student-written magazine in Europe, Fat Controller Magazine – a national voice for students and a platform for the country’s most talented young journalists, photographers and designers. For more information visit: www.fat-controller.com, or phone 0191 230 5166.
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