Following on from his post about Rowland Bowen a couple of weeks ago Martin, as promised, now profiles his enduring gift to all cricket tragics and bibliophiles
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After Peter Della Penna’s book Martin is back to more familiar ground with this one, a story involving a great Lancastrian batsman from the olden days
Lack of originality of subject matter is certainly not an accusation that can be levelled at Peter Della Penna, whose first book this is
We are a little late to the party on this one, but it would appear from Martin’s review that the positive reaction to the publication of Robin Smith’s autobiography last year was fully justified
Occasionally reviews slip through the net, like this one that Martin had filed with a collection of family photographs by mistake. It is therefore 18 months late, so the book may no longer be available
Not many of us get to celebrate our 100th birthdays, but today for, we believe, the first time, that landmark has been reached by a noted cricket writer
Next week we shall have a post on the subject of ‘The Cricket Quarterly’, but before doing so we decided it would be sensible to provide this pen portrait of its proprietor
Another county has now embarked on a series of books containing biographies of all who have played for them over the years, a most welcome trend
Martin enjoyed Aditya Bhushan’s second book, Fortune Turners, so we tasked him with reviewing his debut as well
Not many cricket writers in the 1960s had cause to be pleased with a review of their work by Rowland Bowen – Ralph Barker was one of the few