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After a couple of false starts Martin has finally completed his post on John Nyren’s famous book
This week we have reviews of a couple of books from Anindya Dutta, his belated enjoyment of Spell-Binding Spells prompting Martin to seek out a copy of Dutta’s debut offering, A Gentleman’s Game
This week we have reviews of a couple of books from Anindya Dutta, his belated enjoyment of Spell-Binding Spells prompting Martin to seek out a copy of Dutta’s debut offering, A Gentleman’s Game
In this post Martin revisits the life of one of his favourite cricket people, this time armed with some material that has not previously seen the light of day
Martin is always on the look out for the unusual, and finding a copy of an obscure Australian biography of a Yorkshire amateur who played for the county briefly in the late 1940s has given him a great deal of pleasure
This booklet, the latest from Red Rose Books, is probably one for Lancastrians only. Even then it will not be to all tastes, but unsurprisingly Martin seems to have enjoyed it
Our second Indian published book this week is not as ambitious a project as the first, but nonetheless it would seem that Martin enjoyed it rather more
Our first new Indian book this week is an ambitious project and a bulky tome but, it seems, not one which Martin found entirely satisfying
No blog on the subject of cricket literature could maintain credibility for too long without looking at the work of John Arlott, hence this week’s post