The Book of Fame

Lloyd Jones has written quite an unconventional book. It is a fictionalized account of the 1905 rugby tour by the New Zealand team to the British Isles and France. This team became known as ‘The Originals' and they achieved legendary status both where they toured, and at home.

Those of you not familiar or interested in rugby, or sport in general, may as well move on now. No hard feelings.

Jones describes the fiction / non-fiction status of the book as follows:

The myth of the 1905 Originals precedes this novel, as do various match reports on the games played. Actual events outside of the matches, however, have been harder to come by and where obtainable not that interesting or even illuminating. This is where the imagination slips easily into the gaps. While this book is a work of the imagination, it is nonetheless bedded in research.

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