Someone once said the difference between eccentricity and madness is money. Sir Julian Cahn seems to have been firmly in the former class.
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We all know Archie Mac is in a time warp when it comes to cricket. Or as one CW poster put it “he has a h*** on for old cricketers” Only a book by Mr Haigh could bring him into the 21st century
Cricket has had its share of mercurial talents. This week Archie reviews a biography of perhaps the most mercurial of all.
This week Archie reviews a biography of the first man of West Indian descent to play Test cricket.
Given Archie’s glowing endorsement, and the fact that there are only 135 copies available, it would seem that potential purchasers of Blighted Lives should place their orders now.
After last week’s look at the earliest Ashes books we move on to the interwar period and examine the written archive that exists.
They say you should never judge a book by its cover. For some reason Archie’s review of this collection of soundbites and epigrams put me in mind of that old adage.
As tension mounts during another Ashes ‘phoney war’ Archie reviews the newly published autobiography of a man England are delighted will be absent when the hostilities begin.
This, and “Brightly Fades The Don”, are two of my favourite cricket book titles. “Brightly Fades The Don” is considered a classic – let us see what Archie thought of “The Hand That Bowled Bradman”.
After missing out on reviewing Frith on Cricket Archie has been reading the veteran author’s 1997 autobiography