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3 unusual facts about Charlie Connelly


Charlie Connelly

His breakthrough 2002 book, Stamping Grounds, was his fifth, and followed the Liechtenstein national football team in their unsuccessful campaign to qualify for the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

Connelly's writing exhibits a self-deprecating humour and love of eccentricity that echoes the style of Bill Bryson.

Harry Zech

As chronicled in Charlie Connelly's book, Stamping Grounds: Liechtenstein's Quest for the World Cup, Zech is also an accomplished winemaker, arguably the best in the country, and is the proprietor of the Harry Zech Winebau Cantina in Schaanwald.


British Guild of Travel Writers

Notable members, past and present, include Somerset Maugham (the Honorary President when the Guild was founded in 1960), Maeve Binchy, Egon Ronay, Charlie Connelly, Bill Birkett, Duncan J. D. Smith and Hilary Bradt.


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