As he is celebrating Archie has been a little self-indulgent this week, but in light of the inevitable lack of sleep he is forgiven – many congratulations to him and Mrs Mac.
CRICKET BOOKS
We are grateful to Gulu Ezekiel for taking a break from preparing the final draft of his revised biography of Sachin Tendulkar in order to let us have this review.
Has the end of the 77 years of hurt given Lancastrians cause to take pleasure in reading about that barren era? It certainly seems so.
Ashes captains have been lending their names to tour books since Victorian times. This week David has been reading the most recent of these, from Andrew Strauss.
This week Stuart reviews Darrell Hair’s second autobiography, which it seems is likely to prove every bit as controversial as his first.
It is sixty years since this collection of John Arlott’s essays first appeared, and Martin certainly believes it has stood the test of time.
This week Martin reviews a book devoted to the history of cricket writing – not surprisingly he seems to have rather enjoyed it.
As promised last week here is David’s review of Chris Arnot’s new book, which looks like a must have for the nostalgic amongst us.
Our thanks go to all the worthy candidates for Book of the Year that we have read this year, but our congratulations can only go to one author, and for 2011 that is Patrick Ferriday.
After a hedonistic stay in the Bahamas we are back, and will announce our Book of the Year next week. In the meantime Martin reviews the latest from the ACS Lives in Cricket series.