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James Riordan was an English novelist, broadcaster, association football player and Russian scholar. Well known for his work Sport in Soviet Society, the first academic look at sport in the Soviet Union, and for his children's novels. He claims to have been the first Briton to play football in the former USSR, playing for FC Spartak Moscow in 1963.
Riordan's first novel Sweet Clarinet won the NASEN Award, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Book Award. The Match of Death won the South Lanarkshire Book Award.
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Bibliography
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(2005)
Escape From War (My Side of the Story)
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(1995)
A Book of Narnians: The Lion, the Witch, and the Others (The World of Narnia)
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(1991)
Break on Through
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(1984)
Favorite Stories of the Ballet
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(1981)
The Woman in the Moon
