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i am the gloryhunter
**Shortlisted for the Best New Writer at the 2010 British Sports Book Awards**
The football supporter's story of a season genre has been well mined: man follows ups and downs of his team, man visits every League ground with a fridge on his head, and so on. But Spencer Austin has found a new angle. His evident empathy with the fans he meets along the way is infectious, and encounters with the likes of Stan Bowles, the ex-safecracker and former owner of Darlington George Reynolds, and the Swebees, Brentford's Swedish fan club, add to the narrative. A beer-soaked, curry-stained odyssey.
--The Independent
chasing the eighties
By visiting the real-life locations of those 1980s films and doggedly tracking down and interviewing the frequently bemused and now unknown stars, Austin hoped to fuse his memories of film and TV with more recent memories of real people and places, finally curing himself of wistful nostalgia. The results are often hilarious and surprisingly poignant.
--Waterstone's Books Quarterly
A p**s-funny book about living the 80s celluloid dream and enduring the cinematic nightmare. Part stalker-fanboy-diary and part Jackass-Rough-Guide-to-movie-America, Spencer Austin faked an orgasm in Harry and Sally's favourite deli, got drunk in the Tom Cruise singalong bar from Top Gun and attempted some nut crushing dance shapes at Dirty Dancing's Lake Lure. The Time of His Life or What? And he'd never felt this way before.
--Paul Ross