In this post Martin looks back at the work of a popular Australian writer and broadcaster
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As regular visitors will know Martin has been reading a lot of Indian books of late, but this week normal service is resumed as our man with the red rose tinted spectacles reviews a recent book from his favourite Accringtonian
Two Australian booklets from Bernard Whimpress this week, this one concentrating on four Sheffield Shield matches from long ago
The second of this week’s reviews of new Australian booklets is a selection of historic photographs of the Adelaide Oval
This week we review another recent book from India. This one goes well beyond our game, but that certainly didn’t trouble Martin
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
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