Martin is a great admirer of Bob Dylan, and Changing of the Guards is his favourite Dylan track, and now we know why he’s had it on a continuous loop all week
CRICKET BOOKS
The 53rd offering in the ACS’ Lives in Cricket series concerns a fast bowler from the earliest days of Derbyshire CCC, and it is one of their very best
The latest offering from Red Rose Books could scarcely have a subject matter further removed from Lancashire, but Martin still seems to have much enjoyed it
With this one we have two writers trying a variation on one of the oldest genres of cricket writing with, it would seem, considerable success
It’s back to Scotland for Martin with this review, of the fifth of Richard Miller’s collections of historic cricket writing
Here we have a new book from one of our favourite small publishers, and one which will be of particular interest to those interested in ‘The Surrey Poet’
For this week’s second review Martin has tracked down a recently published autobiography from Sri Lanka
This one sounds like a very special book indeed, and the even better news is that it is available everywhere in an unlimited edition
And just as we thought the first month of 2021 might pass without Martin reviewing a book with a Lancashire connection …….
New publications about Victor Trumper continue, and this one is a collector’s item of the highest quality