Fiction
It Cracks Like Breaking Skin
Strides
Are You With Me?
Non-Fiction
She Stood There Laughing
The Book of Lists: Football
Walking Ollie
Along Came Dylan
From Working Class Hero to Absolute Disgrace (an 80s Memoir)
…And She Laughed No More (Stoke City’s [First] Premiership Adventure) > OUT NOW!
US Editions
Walking Ollie (Amazon)
Walking Ollie (Barnes & Noble)
Fetching Dylan (Amazon)
Fetching Dylan (Barnes & Noble)
Hello Stephen,
Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed reading ‘She Stood There Laughing’, actually read it three years ago but it inspired me to have a go at writing myself and I’ve since had two books published on following Coventry City (who as you quite correctly wrote, are mostly crap!) which are memoirs of my 34 years of suffering. Would it be ok to send you a copy of my second book ‘It’ll Be Different Next Year:More Life In the Football League’ for a review/opinion, only 120 pages so wouldn’t take you too long! If its not possible I won’t be offended and good luck with ‘And She Laughed No More’, i’ll be buying it!
Regards
Steve Phelps
Thornbury, South Gloucestershire
By: steve phelps on November 4, 2008
at 10:47 pm
Good work The Mr Steve Phelps.
Uncannily, my home from home is down in the wee village of Kington, darn rowd from you in Thornbury. Also found Foster’s books a mighty giggle, esp when the banter imparts on the four legged friends.
Surely now safely away from the black country you find candour in joyful visits to The Gate amongst sobbering walkies around thorbugs, Oldbury and the Severn.
Since moving East last year, Stan and Will have to make do with the sticky ploughed flat fields of Norfolk. Despite rather desperate support, the footer team are a shocker. Though the coast is good for play.
Drink up ye cyder,
W & S
By: Stan and Will on November 19, 2008
at 6:54 pm
Hi Steve: enjoyed your book very much, will be thinking about you fighting for the remote control tonight (or are you going?)
Is it worth me putting a tenner on a Coventry win?
(Have lost your email, of course)
all best, S
By: Stephen Foster on December 1, 2008
at 5:52 pm
Confession time.. I’m one of the bad brigade who judge a book by it’s cover so, when I was looking for something to read from my’ to read pile’,until last weekend, I’d always deferred reading your book ‘Are You With Me’ as a lighter read(although highly recommeded by my teenage son) Absorbing – yes, Brilliant – Yes, Refreshing – Yes. Lighter – No. That’ll teach me! Looking forward already to reading some of your other work and leaving it in his room.
By: han on April 30, 2009
at 9:39 am
typo ( recommended )
By: han on April 30, 2009
at 9:40 am
Hello Han and thanks so much for that review: I’d be very interested to know which cover it was – the trade paperback with the motorbike and heart was a jacket I loved, the mass market ‘misery’ with the boy and dog on the other hand I loathed, but I could not make the publishers change their minds…
Stick with me kid … all best wishes, S
By: Stephen Foster on April 30, 2009
at 11:23 am
You were right – ‘fraid it was the mass market.
By: han on May 2, 2009
at 9:07 pm
Of course, that was the problem for me – there was not much correlation between the imagery of that cover and the words inside…
Still at least you got past it, and good for you for that…
By: Stephen Foster on May 4, 2009
at 3:47 pm
Is Fetching Dylan the same as Along came Dylan, just for America, or is it different?
By: nikibikib on August 11, 2009
at 2:31 pm
It’s the same book with amended Americanizations on spellings but also including an afterword about the passing of Ollie…
By: Stephen Foster on August 11, 2009
at 3:09 pm