Footprints

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Out October 2, 2023

A bumper collection of the work of award-winning West Country journalist and author David Foot, Footprints spans the full range of his work – from cricket, football and boxing to theatre, local history and murder.

With an observant eye, a fascination with human nature and a felicitous way with words, David Foot – who died in 2021 at the age of 92 – wrote with insight and freshness on a wide cast of characters: from cricketer Viv Richards and rugby star Carwyn James to actor Peter O’Toole, politician Harold Macmillan and poet Siegfried Sassoon.

Footprints is both a collection of writing by a superb wordsmith and also the intimate story of how a boy from humble rural roots in Somerset overcame setbacks to become a writer not only of beguiling prose but of wisdom, compassion and humanity – a writer, in the words of one reviewer, ‘of deep perception and rare sympathy’.