This one is an unusual and perhaps even off the wall look at links between Australian cricket and the wool industry, but the author is Gideon Haigh, so it works very well
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This week Martin reviews a new book about a true giant of the game, and a great personal favourite
Unfortunately one or two quality books do occasionally slip past us unnoticed. With this review Martin puts one such deficiency right
In recent months we have had a succession of quality biographical books from Australian historians, a trend that Max Bonnell continues with this one
Here we take one of our regular looks at what is going on outside the mainstream of cricket literature and, like so many others, find a booklet that is a worthy addition to the literature of the game
Gubby Allen’s name is synonymous with Lord’s, the Gentlemen and the MCC, but was he entirely the ‘jolly fine fellow’ he tried to portray himself as?
Some biographies of long forgotten cricketers disappoint, but Michael Stimpson’s account of the life and times of George Brown is not one of them
Not many Indian cricketers of Chandu Borde’s generation have gone into print before, making his a particularly welcome autobiography
As regular visitors will know we don’t limit our reviewing activities to top sellers. This one, for example, will sell no more than 56 copies, although it seems like all of those purchasers will be pleased with their investment
The Mac having recently broken with tradition and reviewed a book about club cricket in Australia, Martin has had a look at one about the game in Scotland