Accompanied by some of his lesser-known photographs, this distilled dialogue is drawn directly from the recordings of a roving conversation with David Goldblatt three months before his death in June 2018. Goldblatt was born in...

The epic exploration of society, politics, and economics in the twenty-first century through the prism of football, by David Goldblatt, who has previously won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.In the twenty-first century,...

Goldblatt began working on Some Afrikaners photographed, first published in 1975, in 1963. He had sold his father's clothing store where he worked, and become a full-time photographer. The ruling Afrikaner National Party-many of its...

The Ball Is Round: A Global History of Soccer von Goldblatt, David

The origins of this book lie in David Goldblatt's simple observation that many of his fellow South Africans, regardless of their race and class, are the victims of often violent crime. "I have asked myself," says Goldblatt, "not least in...

A Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year'Goldblatt is the doyen of sports historians' Mail on Sunday'A globe-trotting magnum opus' Tobias Jones, Sunday TimesIn the twenty-first century, football is first. First among sports themselves, but...

David Goldblatt is the author of The Ball Is Round: A Global History of Football (Penguin, 2007), the definitive historical account of the world's game, and of Futebol Nation (Penguin, 2014), a highly acclaimed footballing history of...

The Olympic Games have become the single greatest festival of a universal and cosmopolitan humanity. In The Games, David Goldblatt takes on a breathtakingly ambitious search for the answers and brilliantly unravels the complex strands of...