The Spirit Of Rugby

About the Book

A true-blue Aussie emigrates to England for his life-time adventure and lands in the Town of Rugby, England. Possessing an interest in English history, he seeks out adventures to experience within the new cultural dimensions. Initially, this seems limited to experiences encompassing cultural differences. He takes a teaching position at a school in Rugby and discovers huge differences between his laid-back Aussie culture and the daily English culture. Enduring Aussie put-downs, he gives as good as he gets. However, he takes things too far on occasions resulting in him being viewed as an unpredictable “Aussie nutter”. Adventures quickly creep up on him, but he views the unfolding events as a wind-up from his newly met acquaintances. He is sucked into ever weirdly developing circumstances, where he is forced to suspend his disbelief and go with the flow. Alexandra becomes the new love of his life and he becomes deeply besotted by her captivating looks, character and alluring personality. As long as they are together, he decides he can tolerate her surreal sudden appearances, disappearances and special quirks. He came to England for adventure and he is now enveloped by it. He and Alexandra tour the famous Rugby School and his surreal world explodes into the fanciful underbelly of the connection between the town and the school. His adventures start questioning his very existence. How will he respond, because he was warned by Martin, the Leader of the Paranormal Club about such events which led Martin himself having a long mental recovery for his sanity. There is far more to the town of Rugby than meets the eye. It appears that it is something that has been there for centuries, evading the public eyes of past and present residents of the town.

About the Author

Colin Hosier and his wife emigrated to England in 2008. Living in the town of Rugby, Midlands UK for seven years, they discovered that the town had many hidden secrets, historical gems and forgotten history. They also discovered that as Aussies, they spent the first few years attempting to fit into the English micro-culture so different from the Australian culture to which they had been accustomed. Hosier decided to intensively research the school and the town. He found secret undercurrents and interesting belief systems in the past and present. Hosier became increasingly infatuated with the historical richness of the quiet, almost sleepy town. Not only was it the birthplace of its namesake sport, he found a treasure trove of old buildings, customs, important people, culture and traditions that made the town such a special historical place with unknown or forgotten history. Being a drama teacher for several decades and a play-write for years, he decided to write a fictionalised historical novel about the exciting historical underbelly of the town and the school, whilst encapsulating the ever present “feeling” that there was so much unknown history to discover. He reveals the richly historical town of Rugby to the world and in the process, inter-weaves some of the hidden gems of the town and the school into the fictional narrative. Hosier maintains that he constantly felt “the spirit of Rugby,” the longer he lived in the town and the more he delved into historical records and listened to local rumours, legends and tales from the older residents. Hosier has his own website colinhosier.com, where you can learn more about him and the wonderfully fascinating history of Rugby Town and Rugby School.