The House of the Rising Suns

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Random House Australia, 2012 - Sports & Recreation - 352 pages
On April 2, 2011, the Gold Coast Suns, the AFL's newest club, set out to forge their very own. This is the story of the group of footballers who took the Gold Coast Suns' first steps. It's the story of the community that banded together and cheered them on. It's a story about brilliant victories, horrible floggings, freakish talent, wasted chances, tireless enthusiasm and limitless determination. It's also the story of the game's expansionist frontier told from the very front row. Exciting, revealing, tragic, funny, and always tinted by the raw, unbridled emotion so unique to Australia's indigenous code, this is the up close and personal tale of a club's first steps in a brave new sporting world.
 

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Contents

II
5
III
17
IV
19
VI
33
VIII
45
X
51
XII
59
XIII
61
XXXII
207
XXXIII
221
XXXIV
237
XXXV
247
XXXVI
259
XXXVII
270
XXXVIII
281
XXXIX
291

XV
69
XVII
76
XIX
86
XXI
94
XXIII
101
XXIV
103
XXV
119
XXVI
130
XXVII
142
XXVIII
159
XXIX
173
XXX
188
XXXI
202
XL
303
XLI
318
XLII
330
XLIII
342
XLIV
351
XLV
359
XLVI
370
XLVII
384
XLVIII
392
XLIX
399
L
403
LI
405
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The House Of The Rising Suns
Matthew Webber
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About the author (2012)

It took Matt Webber the better part of a decade to realise a listless existence as an unimaginative litigation lawyer wasn't making him very happy. Things turned for the better when he ditched the timesheets and began scribbling for a sporadic quid. And when an impromptu conversation with Gold Coast Suns CEO Travis Auld on a plane home from the 2009 AFL Grand Final morphed into a year as the club's in-house scribe, well, Christmas arrived early and things just fell into place. House of the Rising Suns, a from-the-outer analysis of the Gold Coast Suns' first year in the AFL, will be Matt's first book. Matt is married to the unflinchingly supportive Samantha. They have two daughters, Daisy, 3, definitely a Saint, and Peggy, 1, maybe a Sun.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe House of the Rising Suns
AuthorMatthew Webber
PublisherRandom House Australia, 2012
ISBN1742753523, 9781742753522
Length352 pages
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