The Code

This is current bedside reading. It's about fighting in ice hockey. It's an odd thing, ice hockey is the only team sport where fighting is allowed, but there is a very strict code about it. The book isn't really glorifying fighting but exploring the code and how some people view it as a positive (the argument is that knowing if you mess with someone the enforcer will get you, stops dirty play), but also lists the injuries and damage it causes. 
There is a Cardiff Devil supporter, Victoria Silverwood who did a PhD in this concept of legitimised violence. She's publishing a book on it soon, which will be an interesting accompaniment to this.