David Goldblatt: Injury Time

He’ll discuss his latest book, Injury Time, and how football reflects British society and culture. This unique and engrossing state-of-the-nation examination will demonstrate how major events in our recent history are reflected in football. 

10 years from his critically acclaimed book The Game of Our Lives, David is back with  a new title that explores Brexit, Covid, and the interlinking crises of the sporting world: from inequality in the professional game, to the way that footballers’ influence pop-culture and politics. 

Find out how football is the ultimate bellwether of British society.  

David will be in conversation with George Harrison.

This event is followed by book sales and signing with The Book Hive.

Tickets £8

David Goldblatt

David Goldblatt is a writer, journalist and academic. He has written four previous major books on football, including The Ball is Round (‘A magnificent work …Takes football history to a new level’ – John Foot, Guardian) and The Game of Our Lives, which won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 2015. His journalism has won major national journalism prizes, including Radio Programme of the Year and Sports Story of the Year (twice). He teaches football history at Pitzer College Los Angeles, and for the Football Business Academy in Geneva. He has lived in Bristol for the last twenty years.

George Harrison

George Harrison is a writer, ghostwriter, and editor based in Norwich. His debut novel, Season, was published by Eye Books in 2025.

Season follows two men in adjacent seats as they form an unlikely intergenerational friendship in the stands of an ailing football club. Told over thirty-eight chapters (one for each game of a Premier League campaign), Season is a novel about the healing, unifying and often maddening role of ritualised sport, inspired by George’s experiences as a Norwich City fan.

The Mail on Sunday describes Season as a ‘clever and heartfelt debut,’ while the Telegraph says Season offers 'a heartfelt and sensitive portrait of male bonding in the stands.'