In this post the blog takes a new departure, the story of a man who assembled perhaps the finest collection of cricketing memorabilia ever to have been in private hands
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After his recent discovery of a book about Geoffrey Keighley Martin has tracked down another elusive Australian publication, albeit in this case a very much slimmer one
In another new book from India Martin has been reading the thoughts of one of Guyana’s finest, master batsman Alvin Kallicharran
CLR James was by no means the most prolific of the game’s great writers, but is one of the most important. In this post Martin looks at his life and times
To accompany Martin’s post on the subject of CLR James we are republishing an article from 2013, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of his most famous book
Like a bit of cricket fiction? If so this one might just be a book for you
After a couple of false starts Martin has finally completed his post on John Nyren’s famous book
This week we have reviews of a couple of books from Anindya Dutta, his belated enjoyment of Spell-Binding Spells prompting Martin to seek out a copy of Dutta’s debut offering, A Gentleman’s Game
This week we have reviews of a couple of books from Anindya Dutta, his belated enjoyment of Spell-Binding Spells prompting Martin to seek out a copy of Dutta’s debut offering, A Gentleman’s Game
In this post Martin revisits the life of one of his favourite cricket people, this time armed with some material that has not previously seen the light of day