Your Show: 'The football novel is back.' The Times

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'It's a double celebration tonight, not that many will care about your special role. You carry the weight of the occasion on your shoulders, take it in your stride. You've worked hard to get here, earned these palpitations . You, the first black man to referee in the Premiership.'

From Jamaica to Sheffield to the recently formed Premier League, Uri rises through the ranks as a referee, making it to the select group list, the highest level of our national game.

But along the way he is confronted with the tensions and prejudices, old and new, which emerge as his every move is watched, analysed and commented on.

Your Show is an extraordinary novel which charts one black man's pioneering efforts to make it, against the odds, to the very top of his profession and beyond.

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'Here is something entirely new, and brilliant: a novel-as-biography ... It will linger with you long after you finish.', ANDREW MACMILLAN

'A thrilling and emotional look at the legacy of one of football's most compelling heroes ... wonderfully inventive.', JEFFREY BOAKYE

Author Bio

Ashley Hickson-Lovence was born in London in 1991 and is a former secondary school English teacher. He is currently completing his PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of East Anglia and is a Lecturer of Creative Writing at the Arts University Bournemouth. In his spare time, using his experience as a football referee himself, he formally observes semi-professional referees for the FA. His debut novel, The 392, was released in April 2019.