Book Connections
Black Ajax (1997) by George Macdonald Fraser:
The Egan connection is clearly discernible throughout this historically-inspired pugilistic novel.
Death and Mr Pickwick (2015) by Stephen Jarvis:
Tells the story of the origins and afterlife of Dickens’s first novel. Egan features in some of the crucial scenes.
Richmond Unchained (2015)
by Luke G Williams:
Story of former slave and boxing legend Bill Richmond; Pierce Egan’s Boxiana is a key text for this Georgian boxing biography.
Big Mal: The High Life and Hard Times of Malcolm Allison, Football Legend (2008) by David Tossell
Just the sort of charismatic and visionary larger-than-life sporting character that would have suited Pierce Egan's thirst for absorbing and entertaining biography-writing.