BOOK LAUNCH! - Kayfabe: A Mostly True History of Professional Wrestling

Cover artwork by Action Figure Cellar (www.actionfigurecellar.com)

It is with tremendous pleasure that I announce the upcoming release of my first ever book, Kayfabe: A Mostly True History of Professional Wrestling.

The Kindle edition is available to pre-order now, for release on Monday 27th November - you can order your copy here. The physical paperback edition will be available to order from 27th November.

Kayfabe is the culmination of three years’ work, and a lifetime’s obsession, exploring wrestling’s history from folk tradition to a multi-million dollar, stadium sell-out business, with particularly focus on the concept of Kayfabe itself, and on wrestling’s unique hinterland between the real and the unreal - it asks why, how and when wrestling became a work, and how questions of “real” vs. “fake”, and of “sport” vs. “entertainment” have informed how wrestling is constructed for more than a century. It asks whether the wrestling of today is really as “post-kayfabe” as you might think, and looks at the flashpoints where Kayfabe has been reshaped and reinforced throughout its long and tumultuous history. It’s a story that, naturally, involves some of the biggest names in wrestling, but a surprising number of walk-on parts from broader pop culture and history, and that takes in war, double-crosses, organised crime, and even murder. And that’s just scratching the surface.

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