BOOK: 'City - The Season'

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Cardiff, GB
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This is not a story of the club but of the people who support it – Bartosz Nowicki

 

CITY – The Season follows Cardiff City FC fans during the 2012-13 campaign, when the Bluebirds wore red. Nowicki presents his own record of the season, weaved in with text from City fans to celebrate the club’s charge to the Premier League and explore issues of identity and belonging generated by the club’s controversial rebrand.

 

Nowicki gets to the heart of what it means to follow Cardiff City, home and away, the anguish and excitement of watching the game, journeys to away grounds by cramped coaches, the harrying presence of stewards and police, the drinking, the singing and the joke playing and always the colours, shirts and tattoos that were the contested symbols of belonging during a season in which, according to Nowicki 'the shadow of the rebrand followed us to every corner of Britain’.

 

 

CITY - The Season is the only book publication concentrating on Cardiff City's promotion year.

 

The book includes text from renowned authors and columnists: Annis Abraham Jnr (the author of 6 books, which have sold in excess of 160000 copies); Carl Curtis (South Wales Echo and Wales Online); and James Leighton who wrote the acclaimed biography of Manchester United legend, Duncan Edwards, which became the no. 1 bestselling football book on Amazon.

 

The book contain never before published photographs of supporters, but it also includes behind the scenes insights, such as meetings between former owner Sam Hammam and current owner Vincent Tan as well as Hammams meeting with fans in the Holland House Hotel. Of course, as befits a book about a football club, you will also find photographs of players, including Craig Bellamy, David Marshall and Matt Connolly.

 

To back this project or simply buy the book, please check the details on the right side of the window.

 

 

Official website of the book.

 

 

City - The Season

 

After fundraising period finishes I will need, approximately one month to finalise/print the book. Therefore it will be released mid/end of September 2013. 

 

Pages: 

56+4 (approx 40 - 50 photographs).

 

Size:

203 x 254mm (landscape)

 

Photography and text:

Bartosz Nowicki

 

Text:

Annis Abraham Jnr

Carl Curtis

James Leighton

 

Graphic Design:

Gaspare Coscarella

 

 

 

 

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Donation

£2.00 or more : Personalised email with thank you and a miniature picture (jpg) of the book cover.

 

Postcard

£5.00 or more : Personalised email to thank you and a limited edition postcard.

 

Book: 'City - The Season'

£15.00 or more : Personalised email to thank you and a copy of the book. Each backer who will buy the book before it goes to print will be named in the book (and on the official website) as a SUPPORTER of the 'CITY - THE SEASON' book.

 

Book: 'City - The Season' Special

£40.00 or more : Personalised email with thank you, a copy of the book, limited edition poster and a postcard. Each backer who will buy the book before it goes to print will be named in the book (and on the official website) as a SUPPORTER of the 'CITY - THE SEASON' book.

 

Sponsorship

£300.00 or more : Each sponsor will receive a copy of the book, a special edition poster and a special edition postcard. Logo or name of each sponsor will be printed inside and on the back cover of the book. I will also add it on the book's official website.