GATE 17 is an independent publisher which aims to showcase fiction and non-fiction from a range of emerging authors. Originally focussed on sharing the experience of watching Chelsea Football Club, in recent years Gate 17 has broadened the reach of its titles to embrace a variety of topics related to popular culture. We are keen to help new authors find an audience.
For further information email enquiries@gate17.co.uk
GATE 17 AUTHORS
Mark Worrall: In addition to writing extensively about his experiences following Chelsea over
land and sea, Mark also pens articles for the legendary Blues fanzine cfcuk and ESPN. >>MORE
Kelvin Barker: Kelvin’s book Celery! Representing Chelsea in the 1980s is widely regarded as being essential reading for anyone keen to understand what following the Blues was like in the 80s. He has also collaborated on a range of Chelsea titles with Mark and David and writes for cfcuk. >>MORE
David Johnstone: David is the
founding editor of the cfcuk fanzine
and has collaborated on a range of Chelsea titles with Mark and Kelvin
as well as authoring his own material. >> MORE
Walter Otton: Walter writes passionately about a range of topics which embrace football, poverty and attendant charity work. His debut novel The Red Hand Gang has received significant praise on Amazon. Walter also writes for the cfcuk fanzine. >>MORE
Al Gregg: Punk musician, actor and author Al Gregg’s book The Wrong Outfit is an outstanding mix of fact and fiction blending together London life in the late 1970s with Chelsea and punk. >>MORE
Christopher Morgan: Londoner and Chelsea-boy Chris Morgan finds himself living in Dubai these days, but that hasn’t stopped him penning a fine debut novel Coming Clean … a Capital love story with a twist. >>MORE
Clayton Beerman: Clayton has
supported the Blues since 1968 and writes for the cfcuk fanzine as well
as guesting regularly on podcasts including the legendary Chelsea Football
Fancast. >>MORE
Carol Ann Wood: Carol, aka Pinky
to her Chelsea friends because of her love for pink megastore merchandise,
is a Cambridge-based creative writer and performance poet. Rhyme and Treason
is her first collection of football-related poems to be published >>MORE
Tim Rolls:
At the age of fifteen Tim was told by his English teacher, a Miss Brown,
that he was ‘a philistine’ because of his inability to be remotely interested
in the works of William Shakespeare and the like. >>MORE
Neil Smith: Hailing from the wilds
of Buckinghamshire where he was born in the mid 1950s, Smiffy, as Neil
is known to many Chelsea supporters,
can
trace
his
lifelong love of the club to the door of cousins who lived on the World’s
End Estate less than a mile from Stamford Bridge. By the time he was 10-years
old young Smiffy had been indoctrinated into the true Blue faith… and the
rest as they say is history. >>MORE
Chelsea Chadder: Chelsea Chadder is a 5th generation Blues fan, proud father
and fortunate husband. His children are 6th generation with his youngest son
having Stamford as a middle name. Chad is a season ticket holder in the Matthew
Harding Stand and has been attending regularly since his dad took him to his
1st game back in 1990. >>MORE
Vince Cooper: Vince Cooper attended
his first game at Stamford Bridge as a six-year-old in 1963. Being separated
from his family and having to watch the second half from the police control
box in the East Stand did little to dim his enthusiasm and he quickly became
a regular. >>MORE
Dean Mears: Regular buyers of cfcuk
will be familiar with the work of Dean Mears who’s written for the Chelsea
fanzine since 2013. Reading Clayton Beerman’s book Palpable Discord sparked
an idea that turned into his first published book, Cult Fiction, a first-hand
account of Maurizio Sarri’s 11-month sojourn as Blues manager. >>MORE
CHRIS WRIGHT:
Supporting Chelsea has been a passion of mine from a very early age. I went to Stamford Bridge for the first time during the 1989/90 season and I have never looked back since.. >>MORE
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