The Boot (Paperback)

Langue : anglais

Edité par Matchmaker Publisher, 2026

1919537910 / 9781919537917

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Paperback. The Boot is not a football story in the traditional sense. It is a story about work, identity, and what happens when systems become more important than the people inside them.Set in a changing Leeds, the novel follows Arty Zee, heir to Footshape Boot Works, a red-brick factory that has survived wars, strikes, and generations of men who believed that doing the job properly was enough. Boots are made by hand. Decisions are personal. Reputation travels through trust rather than paperwork.Then the world begins to change.Football is becoming television. Players are becoming brands. Attention becomes currency. And as success arrives, so does interest from people who do not care how things are made, only how efficiently they move. Inspectors arrive. Insurance policies are reclassified. Production improves. Problems disappear. The factory becomes stronger on paper and weaker in ways nobody can easily explain.Nothing is taken by force. No one openly threatens Arty. Instead, change arrives quietly, disguised as progress. Machines replace instinct. Process replaces judgement. The line keeps moving, and every reasonable decision pushes the factory further away from the thing that once made it matter.As football moves toward fame, scale, and commercial power, Arty finds himself caught between loyalty to the people who built the factory and the reality of a system that rewards efficiency over craft. The question is no longer whether Footshape survives, but what survives inside it - and whether success can exist without loss.Written in a stripped-back, cinematic style, The Boot explores the moment when working-class industry collides with modern sport, and when improvement itself becomes the quiet force that reshapes lives. It is a novel about ambition, compromise, and the uncomfortable truth that power rarely announces itself. Sometimes it simply reorganises the world until resistance feels impossible.For readers drawn to literary fiction, social realism, and stories about football beyond the pitch, The Boot is a slow-burning exploration of how change happens, who benefits from it, and what it costs the people who see it coming too late. A slow-burn football novel about a Leeds boot factory where craft becomes process, people become outputs, and power arrives disguised as "improvement." This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Titre
The Boot (Paperback)
Auteur
Scott Michaels
Éditeur
Matchmaker Publisher
Année de publication
2026
État de l'article
new
Reliure
Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
1919537910
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781919537917

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