Jarrod Black: Hospital Pass: An unashamed football novel

by Texi Smith

Overview

You don’t need to be a ‘football person’ to enjoy this book. The characters will create that passion for you and pull you along on their highs, lows, and everything in between. It is a truly entertaining and passionate story with some heartfelt experience from the author. 

Australian midfielder Jarrod Black is a Football League player in England, plying his trade in a team gunning for promotion. With only a few games left to secure that automatic promotion spot, join our man as he lives through the highs and lows of the end of season dog fight. Will off-field drama and major challenges unhinge the season? Read on.

From the author of Introducing Jarrod Black, this is another unashamed football novel.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780648407300
Publisher:	Fair Play Publishing
Publication date:	03/22/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	254
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Texi Smith started his love affair with writing at a young age penning fictitious matchday programmes for his beloved Newcastle United. Although never having excelled at English in a school environment, there was one piece of writing in year 7 that his well-respected English teacher, Mr Boothroyd, singled out as 'masterful', giving Texi confidence, leading to some hi-octane high-speed match reports at university for the First XI football team. This culminated in his one and only accolade of Uni Journalist of the Year in 1995. He still has the trophy. Further match report-writing seasons followed in Australia, capturing the essence of youth and senior games, most of which would never have been given any journalistic coverage whatsoever, before a successful two-year stint as newsletter editor for the highly regarded In Off The Post publication for the local football club. Much acclaim for his punchy writing style sowed the seed for a more substantial project, resulting in a 3-year stop-start writing process that produced his first novel, Introducing Jarrod Black. Having grown up in a rural market town in the North East of England, a move to France opened his eyes and broadened his horizons. It was from there that circumstances took Texi to Australia, where those "two months to see if I like it", just prior to the Olympic Games in 2000-became the catalyst for permanent residency. No slouch on the football field, and a veteran of 8 Sydney marathons, he now gets as much out of the game as a coach, manager and referee. Managing a busy IT consultancy, having a wife who is addicted to triathlons and always training for the next big race and having two wonderful kids with busy school lives does not lend itself to a life conducive to mediative hours and leisure. It does, however, give fuel for a good deal of observational writing in his spare time, which he has come to relish.

Table of Contents

Part One Carnival 

Part Two Clinic

Part Three Hammer Blow

Part Four Scan

Part Five Tense

Part Six Ready

Part Seven Operate

Part Eight Coping

Part Nine Poised

Part Ten Emotional

Part Eleven Final Score

Acknowledgements