| Novels that mention QPR on 12:17 - Oct 8 with 3557 views | stevec |
Tilting at Windmills, Andy Miller.
We’re an integral part of the book. |  | |  |
| Novels that mention QPR on 18:47 - Oct 8 with 3212 views | hubble |
Crime and Punishment. |  |
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| Novels that mention QPR on 18:57 - Oct 8 with 3189 views | Sommerbreeze |
it's been 20 odd years since i read it, but i think that in David Baddiel's first novel Time For Bed the protagonist is a rangers fan. |  | | |
| Novels that mention QPR on 19:59 - Oct 8 with 3083 views | danehoop |
Kim Newman, excellent horror writer, film critic, journalist etc. etc. wrote a book of short novellas in 1994 called "The Original Dr. Shade, and Other Stories."
One of the short stories was called SQPR and tracked the rather prophetic rise of Sky and Murdoch's dark influence over sport and news. The protagonist is the manager of a plucky QPR team who massively over achieve to win footballs biggest prize only to exposed to the evil underbelly of being sold as an entertainment commodity for the joys of the masses, not the fans or real supporters. Actually think I will dig that one out and read it again. Was really way ahead of its time. |  |
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| Novels that mention QPR on 20:19 - Oct 8 with 3047 views | BathRanger |
I'm sure QPR get a very brief mention in Jo Nesbo's Headhunters. |  | | |
| Novels that mention QPR on 21:27 - Oct 8 with 2945 views | BernardOK |
Shameless plug -
‘The Final Round’ and ‘Private Lessons’ by Bernard O’Keeffe feature a detective (DI Garibaldi) who’s a QPR season ticket-holder.
Lots of QPR references. For example -
‘He smiled as he remembered the line from Larkin – ‘man hands on misery to man’. That’s what he had done – handed on the misery of being a QPR season-ticket holder to his son. And he didn’t regret it one bit.’
‘Smug was never a word applied to QPR fans’
And many of the characters share surnames with QPR players – there’s an Ainsworth and Gallen in the latest one...
You can get hold of the Garibaldi series here – https://shorturl.at/iouwL | | | |
| Novels that mention QPR on 22:00 - Oct 8 with 2835 views | hubble |
| Novels that mention QPR on 21:27 - Oct 8 by BernardOK |
Shameless plug -
‘The Final Round’ and ‘Private Lessons’ by Bernard O’Keeffe feature a detective (DI Garibaldi) who’s a QPR season ticket-holder.
Lots of QPR references. For example -
‘He smiled as he remembered the line from Larkin – ‘man hands on misery to man’. That’s what he had done – handed on the misery of being a QPR season-ticket holder to his son. And he didn’t regret it one bit.’
‘Smug was never a word applied to QPR fans’
And many of the characters share surnames with QPR players – there’s an Ainsworth and Gallen in the latest one...
You can get hold of the Garibaldi series here – https://shorturl.at/iouwL |
Bernard, I like the sound of DI Garibaldi, I think I'll give him a try!
Edit: and reading about where the two novels are set, maybe you grew up in the same place I did - or you live there now. Boat Race day and Barnes common, both things dear to my heart.
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| Novels that mention QPR on 22:04 - Oct 8 with 2809 views | BernardOK |
| Novels that mention QPR on 22:00 - Oct 8 by hubble |
Bernard, I like the sound of DI Garibaldi, I think I'll give him a try!
Edit: and reading about where the two novels are set, maybe you grew up in the same place I did - or you live there now. Boat Race day and Barnes common, both things dear to my heart.
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Thanks! Hope you enjoy him. | | | |
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| Novels that mention QPR on 23:07 - Oct 8 with 2723 views | colinallcars |
How about “Useless “ by James Joyce ? |  | | |
| Novels that mention QPR on 00:38 - Oct 9 with 2651 views | hubble |
Sorry QPR Steve, I don't mean to hijack your thread, but I was thinking of that famous scene in Shakespeare in which QPR appear. You know, in Hammersmithlet, Act 1, scene 4: Two QPR fans, Marcellus and Horatio, are standing at the front of the Lower Loft at the end of another home defeat, looking at other fans clapping Claudius Ainsworth.
Marcellus: Let's follow Ainsworth. 'Tis not fit thus to obey him.
Horatio: Have after! To what issue will this come?
Marcellus: Something is rotten in the state of Queen's Park Rangers.
Horatio: Heaven will direct it.
Marcellus: Nay, let's follow him.
A fight ensues. Enter a clown. They exit, still fighting. | |
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| Novels that mention QPR on 13:50 - Oct 10 with 2338 views | rbee |
Having watched Strike on the telly, the secretary's husband is a knob so not good!
If only Robert Galbraith had mentioned us in her Harry Potter books. The Hoops would have been seen in the films and tourists would be flocking to Loftus Road after visiting Platform 9 and 3/4 |  | | |
| Novels that mention QPR on 14:07 - Oct 10 with 2293 views | QPRSteve |
| Novels that mention QPR on 13:50 - Oct 10 by rbee |
Having watched Strike on the telly, the secretary's husband is a knob so not good!
If only Robert Galbraith had mentioned us in her Harry Potter books. The Hoops would have been seen in the films and tourists would be flocking to Loftus Road after visiting Platform 9 and 3/4 |
I think you are confusing him with Strike's partners husband. The secretary's husband is obviously extremely intelligent with very good taste  | | | |
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