‘A beautiful novel about the beautiful game’ – Jonathan Pearce
Our first title of 2025 is Season, the debut novel by George Harrison.
For ten months of the year, two men – one young, the other old – occupy adjacent seats in a football stadium, carrying the burdens of life and pouring all their hopes into their beloved but ailing team.
Neither fan is a comfortable talker. However, in a slow-motion play of nods, silences and guarded chats, they strike up a tentative friendship across the generational gap.
Told through thirty-eight chapters – one for each game of the Premier League campaign – Season is a lyrical, hypnotic and gently uplifting study of loneliness and modern masculinity.
Match of the Day commentator Jonathan Pearce calls it ‘a beautiful novel about the beautiful game’ while the Daily Telegraph says it’s ‘a heartfelt and sensitive portrait of male bonding in the stands’.
‘A convincing portrait of every football fan’s quest to be reassured that, at least once a week, you aren’t alone,’ the Telegraph adds, ‘Season pushes beyond the clichés to get to something emotionally true.’
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