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'Immensely readable.' Observer
'Delightful.' Mail on Sunday
'Highly enjoyable.' Guardian
'Informative and emotive.' This Is Anfield
'A love letter to the great man himself.' The Times
In the first book by a British writer about this extraordinary football manager, lifelong Liverpool fan Anthony Quinn has crafted a memorable love letter to Jürgen Klopp. Taking in all the drama of LFC's disrupted, but ultimately triumphant, 2019-20 season, it offers unique insight into one of football's most charismatic figures.
'Klopp isn't just for Liverpool, Quinn writes in his final pages. He is for all of us. I reckon this book can be too.' Hannah Jane Parkinson, Observer
'Klopp has worked his way into Liverpool's big sentimental heart like a German love bomb. And Quinn couldn't resist writing an ode, an unabashed fan's note: to Klopp and his boyhood city and the ghost of Shankly.' Irish Times
About the author
Anthony Quinn was born in Liverpool in 1964. From 1998 until 2013 he was the film critic for the Independent. He is the author of ten novels, including The Rescue Man, which won the 2009 Authors' Club Best First Novel Award; The Streets, which was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize; Freya, a Radio 2 Book Club choice; Curtain Call, which was chosen for Waterstones and Mail on Sunday Book Clubs and adapted into the acclaimed film The Critic in 2024; and, most recently, The Mouthless Dead.
Summary
'A love letter to the great man himself.' The Times
'Immensely readable.' Observer
'Delightful.' Mail on Sunday
'Highly enjoyable.' Guardian
'Informative and emotive.' This Is Anfield
In the first book by a British writer about this extraordinary football manager, lifelong Liverpool fan Anthony Quinn has crafted a memorable love letter to Jürgen Klopp. Taking in all the drama of LFC's disrupted, but ultimately triumphant, 2019-20 season, it offers unique insight into one of football's most charismatic figures.
'Klopp isn't just for Liverpool, Quinn writes in his final pages. He is for all of us. I reckon this book can be too.' Hannah Jane Parkinson, Observer
'Klopp has worked his way into Liverpool's big sentimental heart like a German love bomb. And Quinn couldn't resist writing an ode, an unabashed fan's note: to Klopp and his boyhood city and the ghost of Shankly.' Irish Times
Foreword
In the first book by a British writer about this extraordinary football manager, lifelong Liverpool fan Anthony Quinn has crafted a uniquely revealing love-letter to Jürgen Klopp.
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Klopp's story is told in an immensely readable style...Klopp isn't just for Liverpool, Quinn writes in his final pages. He is for all of us. I reckon this book can be too. Hannah Jane Parkinson Observer
