It’s that time of year again, and we have pleasure in presenting the twenty first edition of Martin’s bi-annual round up of new and forthcoming releases
A BIBLIOPHILE'S BLOG
This post is the first in an occasional serious looking at some less well known, but undoubtedly worthy cricket writers
More words have been written about the 1932/33 Ashes than any other series of Test matches, so hopefully this guide to what has been published will be of some assistance to anyone interested in learning more about ‘Bodyline’
Who was the greater writer, Crusoe or Cardus? Sometimes you just have to acknowledge that dead heats happen
Not all modern writers revere Neville Cardus in the way their predecessors did. In this post Martin adds his two penn’orth to a debate that is doubtless going to run and run
After Australia and South Africa we take things slightly out of chronological order by looking at accounts of Test series between England and India
One of the things we want to do with this blog is post our thoughts on some of our favourite writers, and Alan Ross is certainly one of those
Sadly this is a story that, as tour books have gone out of fashion, is likely to be at its end
Back in 1991 West Country journalist Richard Walsh published a poem, written by John Arlott, about a famous century that Somerset opener Harold Gimblett scored on debut in 1935. There were 135 copies of the poem, 110 of them in card covers, numbered and signed by Arlott (who was to pass away later that year). […]
A number of years on from our look at accounts of Ashes series, Martin takes a look at the books that have appeared on the subject of cricketing relations between England and South Africa