The glory and grime of boxing
In The Last Bell: Life, Death and Boxing, Donald McRae deftly captures the sport’s ugliness and exhilaration.
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Francisco Garcia
Francisco Garcia is a London-based writer and journalist. His writing has regularly appeared in the Financial Times, The Guardian and the London Review of Books, among others. His second novel We All Go Into The Dark was published in April 2023.
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