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The oldest sport in the world

Kerry Handley’s riotously entertaining and perceptive Thrown makes something marvellous from the triumphs and disasters of fighters Sean Huffman and Erik Koch

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    Kerry Howley

    Hamish Hamilton, pp. 288

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