With just a month to go before it all begins the first publication we have seen on the subject of the 2019 World Cup looks at the stories of the two nations who will start as the competition’s outsiders
CRICKET BOOKS
England’s oldest living Test cricketer is a Sussex man, and in his 96th year the county’s museum have decided to honour him with a booklet devoted to his life
Rupert Webb was an old fashioned wicketkeeper. He was no mug with the bat, but as he never did quite manage a First Class fifty he couldn’t be considered an all-rounder in the modern sense. His glove work was nonetheless of sufficient quality to see him as his county’s first choice for the best part […]
A disproportionate number of our five star books have come from just one small publisher, and with the autobiography of Fred Rumsey Fairfield Books have come up with another outstanding title
Gerald Howat wrote a number of cricket books back in the 1980s, only one of which we have previously looked at. This week David Taylor moves towards redressing the balance by reviewing Howat’s look at the game in the inter-war years
In his latest limited edition booklet Dave Battersby rescues a long forgotten New Zealand tourney from obscurity
Two new books have emerged from the pen of Max Bonnell in as many months, and it seems this one is every bit as enjoyable as the last
Over the years we haven’t reviewed too many books of a ‘practical nature’ but, thanks to the enthusiasm of youth, we are delighted to feature Tim’s thoughts on this one
Heir to Adventure amounts to the autobiography of a man who captained Kent for a single summer and played one Test for England in 1921, which is the reason why we are reviewing a book with less than a page of cricket content
It is more than seventy years since Don Bradman played his last Test innings, and approaching twenty years since his passing, but the interest in his remarkable batting record shows no sign of diminishing. This week Martin reviews the latest in a very long line of books published on the subject of ‘The Don’