A contemporary of Irving Rosenwater and Rowland Bowen, Roy Webber was not such a colourful character, but remains a ‘person of interest’ as far as we bibliophiles are concerned
A BIBLIOPHILE'S BLOG
This week Martin tells the story of Bruce Harris, a journalist who wrote a number of tour books, starting with one on the famous 1932/33 Ashes series
The name Samuel Canynge Caple is a largely forgotten one except, it would seem, by Martin
This week we take a look a writer who was primarily a journalist, but who also authored a number of books and was never anything other than completely forthright in the opinions he expressed
This week we look at another cricket magazine, the relatively short lived and much missed Cricket Lore
This week we have a look at another cricket writer from long ago, although on this occasion the name is not a well known one
This week we go back to Edwardian times, and a largely forgotten man who nonetheless was a writerwho made some important early contributions to the literature of our great game
In this post Martin takes a look at one of the forgotten classics of cricket literature, and of the life of the professional cricketer whose only book it was
This week we are delighted to have our first guest post on the blog. It is from Christopher O’Brien whose specialist subject is Neville Cardus
Cricket writers usually operate alone and, if truth be told, it seems that the pair that made up this long running double act generally did as well