Miriam Sved: Game Day novel on the ball

By Karen Hardy
Updated August 21 2014 - 6:18pm, first published 6:00pm
Miriam Sved's <i>Game Day</i> captures the essential qualities of sport.
Miriam Sved's <i>Game Day</i> captures the essential qualities of sport.

As important as sport is to Australian culture, when it comes to making the transition into depicting it in popular culture we seem to be caught just short of the tryline.