Our first review of the New Year is the autobiography of one of Australia’s favourite son. Next week we will have Martin’s regular look at recent books, and those we can expect in the coming months
We hope all our readers have been given a cricket book or three for Christmas, and end our reviews for 2016 with a look at the most recent addition to the ACS Lives in Cricket Series
Cricket and cricketers from Norfolk have been the subject of more books than you might think, but this is certainly the first time that we have reviewed one here on Cricketweb
We sometimes wonder how Martin finds some of the things he reviews, and this one certainly falls into that category. He assures us that scouring the internet for obscure cricketing publications is actually quite normal, but no one here believes him, not even Archie Mac!
A clutch of Australian autobiographies have just appeared and if the Mac intends to read them all his family won’t be seeing much of him in the coming weeks. His first review is of Chris Rogers’ story
There is no shortage of reading material available for those interested in the late Richie Benaud. We haven’t got round to reviewing all of the books published about him last year, but have covered three now, all of which are well worth a read
Cricket writing’s answer to JK Rowling is featured this week with an excellent follow up, although the unimaginative title is a little disappointing – how about Brief Candles and the Philosopher’s Wisden for the next one?
A weighty work of reference for Archie this week, and one which it seems will stay on the shelves for regular consultation rather than be used to prop the door open
Martin delivered this review before the second Test began on Thursday. We have little doubt that he will be disappointed that his closing assessment has been borne out by events