Gavin Bell Bücher

Because it's Saturday is a whimsical tour through the heartland of football, from Accrington to Plymouth via Grimsby and Blackpool, during a season of triumphs and near disasters. It is a paean on the passion and loyalty that sustain the grass roots of the game in communities for whom the local club is far more than a football team.

A travel book with a literary theme, an odyssey that explores the remote haunts of a 19th-century figure. In 1993, Gavin Bell followed Stevenson's voyages from San Francisco through French Polynesia, then on to Hawaii, the Gilberts and Samoa.