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The Last Bell
Life, Death and Boxing
Brief Description
Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2025 ‘Thoroughly encapsulates the current state of the hurt business’ Telegraph, Best Books of 2025 For fifty years, Donald McRae has followed boxing. As criminality and corruption spread, his love for the sport dimmed. In 2018,...
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A revealing look at the ruin and salvation of twenty-first century boxing, from one of sport’s greatest contemporary writers.
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Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2025
‘Thoroughly encapsulates the current state of the hurt business’ Telegraph, Best Books of 2025
For fifty years, Donald McRae has followed boxing. As criminality and corruption spread, his love for the sport dimmed. In 2018, grieving his sister’s death and his parents’ illness, he turned back to boxing – just as Tyson Fury’s improbable resurrection proved the ring could still offer redemption.
McRae takes us close to champions including Fury, Canelo Álvarez, Katie Taylor and Oleksandr Usyk. He doesn’t shy away from exploring huge themes – doping, state repression, war – and he doesn’t flinch from recording the thudding hits or the heartbreak a fighter feels in defeat. And in telling the devastating story of Patrick Day, he confronts death in the ring.
The Last Bell is McRae’s most personal and unflinching book, a clear-eyed reckoning with life and the sport he can’t let go.
‘Exhilarating and terrifying’ Herald
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781398504202
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 12 March 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Simon & Schuster Ltd
Illustration: 8pp colour plates
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 28.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 464
About the Author
Donald McRae is an award-winning author of fourteen non-fiction books which have featured sporting icons, legendary trial lawyers, heart surgeons and South Africa. He has twice won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year – the UK's most prestigious sports book prize – and ten national awards for his journalism at the Guardian.
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