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Coming
​March 2027


For fans of
​
​The Silver Linings Playbook
This Is Where I Leave You

Crazy Heart
The Wrestler
Sideways

The Full Monty


A once-famous American English Premier League footballer-turned-cult-writer who, as a middle-aged and homeless alcoholic, attempts to get his life back by accepting an offer to write, of all things, a coffee-table book about England's vanishing pubs.

.
Tobias Bechler,
American '90s star midfielder
at Huddersfield Town AFC,
is homeless...
​in love with Mallory from AA...
in receipt of troubling medical test results...
befriends a stranded Nigerian footballer...
and an English pub activist...
on a UK pub-crawl...
covered by the BBC...
hectored by neo-Nazi hooligans...
shadowed by an Austin cop...
does battle with his demons...
parents his daughter from afar...
attempts to maintain a love affair...
makes amends...

and tries to learn how to not
take anything for granted anymore

​because he doesn’t have time.



“One-of-a-kind novel.” – David Ebershoff, author of The Danish Girl says of AMARADONA

"AMARADONA unfolds into a tragicomic gem" – Jeff Biggers, author of The Trials of a Scold and In Sardinia

 

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Amaradona by Mark Falkin
 Publishing March 2027 by Stoney Creek Publishing, a member of the Texas A&M University Press Texas Book Consortium
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