Ashes captains have been lending their names to tour books since Victorian times. This week David has been reading the most recent of these, from Andrew Strauss.
CRICKET BOOKS
This week Stuart reviews Darrell Hair’s second autobiography, which it seems is likely to prove every bit as controversial as his first.
It is sixty years since this collection of John Arlott’s essays first appeared, and Martin certainly believes it has stood the test of time.
This week Martin reviews a book devoted to the history of cricket writing – not surprisingly he seems to have rather enjoyed it.
As promised last week here is David’s review of Chris Arnot’s new book, which looks like a must have for the nostalgic amongst us.
Our thanks go to all the worthy candidates for Book of the Year that we have read this year, but our congratulations can only go to one author, and for 2011 that is Patrick Ferriday.
After a hedonistic stay in the Bahamas we are back, and will announce our Book of the Year next week. In the meantime Martin reviews the latest from the ACS Lives in Cricket series.
With the Review Team away in the Bahamas discussing the CW Book of the Year for 2011 guest reviewer Marco has been keeping the place ticking over.
This week Archie reviews the autobiography of the man who began his Test career opening the Australian batting with Arthur Morris, and ended it by doing so with Bill Lawry.
Recent tradition demands that for the first week of a New Year the Review Section is devoted to an overview of recent and forthcoming releases, so here it is.