It’s that time of year again, as Martin rounds up the books to have appeared so far this year, and looks forward to what we can expect in the coming months
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In the space of a year Steve Dolman has produced his first and second books, both excellent, and held down a full time job – we wonder what his secret is?
Next month Garry Sobers will turn 80, and it will be exactly half a century since he led West Indies to victory against England with a peerless allround performance. In this feature Martin tells the story of that Test series
For anyone interested in Pakistan cricket we have a must read book this week from the author of last year’s runner-up for CricketWeb Book of the Year
Mike Yardy’s autobiography gives cricket tragics another reminder that the career we all regard as living the dream isn’t, perhaps, quite as wonderful as we so fondly imagine
A record of the publishable parts of a conversation between a real Lancastrian Test cricketer, and a man who is only an ersatz Lancastrian, and whose cricketing career was just about as ordinary as it is possible to be
By definition not an impartial observer on this occasion Martin tried to give this one six stars, and whilst the team can’t countenance that sort of thing experience means we do believe he will have retained much of his objectivity, and that this week’s book must indeed be a very good one
And finally, as the saying goes, we get around to reviewing a book about last summer’s Ashes series, although not the series that might be expected
The biggest hitters have always been popular, and their reputations tend to resonate down the years. In recent times however the game seems to have forgotten Big Jim Smith, an oversight Martin hopes this feature will put right
A second biography of Jack Crawford in little more than a year – does it stand comparison with its predecessor?