As the 2020 English cricketing summer fades into history the latest edition of County Cricket Matters is now available
Martin Chandler - ARTICLES
She wrote ‘the first book on First Class cricket not written by a man’ back in 1953, but few remember Margaret Hughes today – in this post Martin reminds us of her contribution to cricket literature
This year’s has been a strange old county cricket season, so now seems an appropriate time to look at a book about 2019, the sort of summer that we will hopefully enjoy once more in 2021
This week Martin reviews The Nightwatchman, with apologies for not having done so earlier
This week the blog looks at the life, times and work of Gerald Brodribb, one of the most versatile cricket writers there has been
…. and if proof were needed this review is clear evidence that a self-published limited edition can get Martin’s seal of approval even if it has nothing at all to do with Lancashire
Red Rose Books’ latest publication has just appeared and, with its Lancastrian subject matter, it is no surprise that Martin has read and enjoyed it already
This week Martin reviews an ebook, something we never thought we’d see, so it seems that even for him time moves on occasionally
It is always asking for trouble to leave books unread on the shelves for many years, as Martin recently found when he rediscovered this one
In this feature Martin tells the story of Johnny Douglas, an old fashioned amateur who played the game harder than most professionals