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	<title>Anthony Clavane</title>
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		<title>Caryl Phillips interviews Anthony Clavane in Leeds: 21/10/10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Caryl Phillips interviews Anthony Clavane in Leeds: 21/10/10
‘The Promised Land?’
Prize-winning novelist Caryl Phillips interviews Anthony Clavane about ‘Promised Land’ at Old Broadcasting House, Leeds, 21-10-10
Caryl Phillips:
When I first met Anthony it was clear to me that he had a profound and encyclopaedic knowledge of Leeds writers: Keith Waterhouse, Alan Bennett, David Storey etc. We talked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anthonyclavane.com/wordpress/caryl-phillips-interviews-anthony-clavane-in-leeds-211010-2/</link>
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		<title>Leeds Guide Review</title>
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		<title>The Telegraph Sport Books Of 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the year’s most successful marriage of social history and sporting drama,    turn to Promised Land (Yellow Jersey, £16.99), Anthony    Clavane’s enchanting evocation of his four decades as a Leeds United    supporter.
Promised Land is nothing if not ambitious. Clavane knits together three    different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Times Books Of The Year 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The sports shelves this year offer several books with grand ambitions. One of those is &#8216;Promised Land: The Reinvention Of Leeds United&#8217; by Anthony Clavane, in which the history teacher turned Sunday Mirror journalist weaves his own Jewish roots into a history of the most demonised of English football clubs. It is a bold approach [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anthonyclavane.com/wordpress/caryl-phillips-interviews-anthony-clavane-in-leeds-211010/</link>
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		<title>Praise for Promised Land</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Anthony Clavane’s magnificent Promised Land is a fan&#8217;s-eye view of Leeds United over the years. Promised Land is an instant classic, standing comparison with Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch, although Clavane’s book concerns itself more with the cityscape that surrounds his beloved football club and less with the author’s own neuroses.&#8221;
Simon Briggs, Daily Telegraph
&#8220;Humane, witty and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anthonyclavane.com/wordpress/scratching-shed-review/</link>
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In conversation:
Anthony Clavane and John Lake
Thursday 23 February 2012
7.00 &#8211; 8.30pm
Admission Free
PSL, Whitehall Waterfront, Leeds
    
glamourie.co.uk/events
One of a series of Dark Heart &#62; M1 events curated by Chris Bloor and Derek Horton alongside the exhibition Glamourie at PSL [Project Space Leeds]
In Promised Land, Anthony Clavane argues that both its football team and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jon Culley, Sports Bookshelf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;To stand out from the crowd still requires something special. Anthony Clavane has pulled it off with Promised Land.&#8221;

The title is no throwaway line. It was inspired by a sign that once hung inside Leeds railway station bearing the words: ‘Leeds, the Promised Land delivered’ but, as the reader discovers quickly as he or she [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anthonyclavane.com/wordpress/jon-culley-sports-bookshelf/</link>
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		<title>Dominic Sandbrook and Anthony Clavane on football and the Seventies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[realplay
Podcast of James Brown’s  interview with Anthony Clavane for Random House.
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		<link>http://www.anthonyclavane.com/wordpress/podcast-james-brown-interview/</link>
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		<title>Interview Extract</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Damned Utd v The Promised Land: David Peace in conversation with Anthony Clavane
AC: I wanted to be very honest and open about the dark side of Leeds. During the late 70s and 80s there was this dark side which made me pull away from the club, from the city. There comes a time in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anthonyclavane.com/wordpress/review-janine-self/</link>
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		<title>Review: Red Ladder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;An absolute winner. Leeds fans will flock to buy it. As a life-long Liverpool fan I have hated Leeds as much as I have hated Man U – but to read their story has really opened my eyes. I could not put the book down – I loved it. I’m a Red and my son [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anthonyclavane.com/wordpress/review-red-ladder/</link>
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