Paul Ferris
Boy on the Shed:A remarkable sporting memoir with a foreword by Alan Shearer: Sports Book Awards Autobiography of the Year
Boy on the Shed:A remarkable sporting memoir with a foreword by Alan Shearer: Sports Book Awards Autobiography of the Year
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The Boy on the Shed is an autobiography of Paul Ferris, who was Newcastle United's youngest-ever first-teamer and was hailed as the new George Best. It is a story of love and fate, and is written with brutal candour, dark humour, and consummate style. It has been shortlisted for several sports book awards and is a riveting and moving account of a life less ordinary.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 10 January 2019
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Sports Book Awards
Autobiography of the Year
Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award
The Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year
The Times Sports Book of the Year
Telegraph Football Book of the Year
Readers love The Boy on the Shed
A journey full of emotion.
Spectacular ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Honest, insightful, and shows how football really has to sort itself out ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Paul Ferris writes from the heart, a wonderful book ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Exceptional ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Ferris' wonderful memoir represents a twin triumph.
He has endured every kind of setback in life but has invariably reinvented himself; and his writing is a pure pleasure.
The Sunday Times
Enough depth and humanity to make your average football autobiography look like a Ladybird book.
Telegraph
A masterpiece
Brian McNally
Football memoirs rarely produce great literature, but Ferris' The Boy on the Shed is a glistening exception.
Guardian
Fascinating and stylishly told.
David Walsh, bestselling author of Seven Deadly Sins
The Boy on the Shed
is a story of love and fate.
At 16, Paul Ferris becomes Newcastle United's youngest-ever first-teamer.
Like many a tricky winger from Northern Ireland, he is hailed as the new George Best.
As a player and later a physio and member of the Magpies' managerial team, Paul's career acquaints him not only with Kevin Keegan, Kenny Dalglish, and Bobby Robson, Ruud Gullit, Paul Gascoigne, and Alan Shearer, but also with injury, insecurity, and disappointment.
Talented and carefree on the pitch, shy and anxious off it, he earns a tilt at stardom.
His first spell at Newcastle turns sour, as does his return as a physio, although obtaining a Masters degree shows him what he could achieve away from football.
Written by:
Paul Ferris
Weight: 252g
Dimension: 192 x 122 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781473666740
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