The Last Wrestlers

His argument that a sporting defeat might feel like the end of the world because once upon a time it meant you would not pass on your genes is strikingly well put

Sunday Times

Fascinating, funny, tragic and inspiring

Arena

This is a damned good read ... and in an area of interest devoid of decent literature, must be highly recommended

Allan Best, British Wrestling Association

The Last Wrestlers is an absolutely fascinating, heartfelt and original book that deserves a wide audience

Robert Twigger, author of Angry White Pyjamas

Marcus Trower ... is the perfect guide on a journey to discover the roots of a sport which, in the Western world, has long been forgotten

Daily Express

A cracking premise for a book and one that Trower pursues with rollicking optimism. He has an earthy and beguilingly frank style that marvellously captures the anthropological texture of his journey through the rural hinterlands of Asia, Africa and South America

The Times

Marcus Trower engages from the first word...a vivid, personal journey...this is sports writing at its best

Gay Times

Trower has the perfect pitch for a sentence that illuminates an entire culture

Financial Times

His dedication to finding a spiritual dimension to a lost art is hard to fault

Wanderlust