Full name: Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport

Author: Anna Krien Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780224100038 0224100033

'The Pies beat the Saints and the city of Melbourne was still cloaked in black and white crepe paper when the rumour of a pack rape by celebrating footballers began to surface. By morning, the head of the sexual crimes squad confirmed to journalists that they were preparing to question two Collingwood players ... And so, as police were confiscating bed sheets from a townhouse in South Melbourne, the trial by media began.' What does a young footballer do to cut loose? At night, some play what they think of as pranks, or games. Night games with women. Sometimes these involve consensual sex, but sometimes they don't, and sometimes they fall into a grey area. In the tradition of Helen Garner's The First Stone comes a closely observed, controversial book about sex, consent and power. In Night Games, Anna Krien follows the rape trial of an Australian Rules footballer. She also takes a balanced and fearless look at the dark side of footy culture - the world of Sam Newman, Ricky Nixon, Matty Johns and the Cronulla Sharks. Both a courtroom drama and a riveting piece of narrative journalism, this is a breakthrough book from one of the young leading lights of Australian writing. Similar books: This House of Grief by Helen Garner The Fault in Our Stars by John Green The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman The Martian by Andy Weir Wonder by R. J. Palacio It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover Matilda by Roald Dahl 1984 by George Orwell On Writing by Stephen King Ready Player One by Ernest Cline The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls