It gives me great pleasure to announce that my most recent Swansea City book, Match of My Life, is receiving a brand-new edition for 2024! After the original printing of Swansea City Match of My Life sold out last year, the book is set to be released as a paperback in August 2024. It will…
In this ‘behind the scenes’ article, I am going to give you some insight into the Swansea City trilogy, from your favourite Swansea author (which, I assume, is me). It’s been over four years since Match of My Life was released, but I still enjoy chatting to Swans fans about these three books. Every time…
I am pleased to announce that I am (or, rather, have been) working with Haynes publishing once again on an updated Bluffer’s Guide book. This time it’s the complete opposite of fitness – the Bluffer’s Guide to Whisky (available November 2020). It’s an revised version of a popular old book, first written by David Milsted…
You wake up at 3am, in a cold sweat. ‘What’s wrong?’ asks your partner/dog/cat. ‘I just had a nightmare… that Chris Carra guy hasn’t had a book published for a while.’ ‘Don’t worry’, he/she/dog/cat replies. ‘His fourth book, The Bluffer’s Guide to Fitness, is out now! Please go back to sleep, this is getting weird…’…
Within the next few weeks, my latest book – Swansea City Match of My Life – will be released. What better time than now to share a few facts about it? Here goes… It’s called Match of My Life. Let’s start with the obvious one! I didn’t come up with the title as it is part of…
Hello! It’s been a while, but I’ve been busy working on my latest book, which I am now pleased to announce – Swansea City: Match of My Life! This is a fantastic collection of stories from 16 iconic Swans players, reliving their favourite games in a Swansea City shirt. There are contributions from absolute legends…
Here’s a very, very brief post to confirm that I am no longer in charge of ForzaSwansea.com. After six very enjoyable years, I made the decision to pass control to a new party in November 2016, after being unable to commit to updating the blog regularly. This is down to other writing projects and clients…
Just a quick note to inform people that I’ll be signing copies of Swansea City’s Greatest Games in Waterstones, Swansea on Tuesday, 9th December. It’s just me and a pen – nothing fancy – so come along, buy a book and have it signed!
On Friday, October 3rd my first book, Swansea City’s Greatest Games, was successfully launched in Waterstones, Swansea. (Picture: South Wales Evening Post) After some fantastic anecdotes and a wonderful introduction from Swansea City club chaplain Kevin Johns, I took to the stage to read the book’s first chapter before talking about the research and writing…