With this review Martin looks at a privately published book he missed in 2011, which is the second one in a week – it is at this point we feel obliged to underline that our six monthly previews are not intended to be comprehensive
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South Africa has not produced too many noted cricket scribes and, technically, did not produce this gentleman either, but we are still going to treat him as the first noted South African writer on the game
After last week’s monograph of JT Tyldesley Martin turns his attention now to a rather longer work on one of John Tommy’s Lancashire teammates
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
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