We haven’t reviewed a play before, but there is a first time for everything on this site, as long as it has some cricketing connection of course
CRICKET BOOKS
Every now and again cricket and baseball come together, and the latest limited edition from Red Rose Books looks back almost 150 years to one such occasion
Not many items of cricket literature merit being described as a coffee table book, but this one certainly does and, at the same time, manages to be a worthy addition to any cricket library
Right now 2019 doesn’t look like being the ‘Year of the Bear’ on the field, but after Patrick Murphy’s recent effort this book at least means the county’s supporters are not short of good reading
Last year the ACS Lives in Cricket series featured its first female subject, the former England all-rounder Enid Bakewell
This book was the first to appear in the ACS Cricket Witness series and, it would seem from Jon’s review, it was an auspicious start
Some books should be purchased for reasons other than the quality of the writing they contain. This is one of them, but as Martin explains it has the added bonus of being an excellent read
Size isn’t everything, and the first in a series of booklets from Max Books demonstrates that is as true for cricket literature as it is in many other fields of human endeavour
Despite being a cricket correspondent throughout it is more than thirty years now since Vic Marks last authored a book. It seems however that this autobiography was well worth waiting for
For the second year running David Battersby has self-published a limited edition book about a Cheltenham cricketer to coincide with the town’s festival