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  1. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Anyone know if Hugh Tayfield left us any writing? Jim Laker complains in Over to Me of his work as a correspondent for an unnamed newspaper, but I've not yet been able to track it down.
  2. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    If my suspicions about it turn out to be true, I'll write it up for CricketWeb first. :-)
  3. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Yes. Fred's helping me out.
  4. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Interesting things happen when Amazon messes up: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Light-Mind-Joyce-Passmore/dp/0954977254/?tag=hitsboo-20 According to that page, The Light in My Mind, a spiritualist self-help book by someone called Joyce Passmore, carries the following endorsement: "A...
  5. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Actually, I'd love to hear from anyone who lives in the UK, and wouldn't mind having posted to them two pages' worth of photocopied material from that office, and then telling me what they say. (I'd have them sent to me, but I've learnt the hard way not to trust my country's postal service.)
  6. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Do any of you live in Surrey, preferably near Guildford? I have a hunch that there's something in the local record office of great significance to our understanding of the early history of cricket. (I'd elaborate, but it would take a while, and I'm operating on the assumption that the mystique...
  7. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    There's an edition available via Amazon for twenty quid.
  8. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Intrigued by this reference in the inaugural issue of everyone's favourite cricket magazine: "Rob Steen [...] edited The New Ball, forerunner to The Nightwatchman." Anyone heard of The New Ball before? Seems to be ungoogleable.
  9. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Hopefully a bit more reasonably priced than the last book I saw with "Empire" and "Cricket" in the title. :-)
  10. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    I think CricketWeb should make an approach to this guy, even if it's just about cross-posting his stuff (in the way The Guardian does with a few of the better sports blogs). It's is excellent, and right up our alley.
  11. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    I wonder if I'm alone in my frustration at the epic and undifferentiated awfulness of books of cricket quotations. I've yet to find one whose author shows any evidence of having gone thoroughly into the literature of the game. Instead they either sponge off each other or copy-'n'-paste from...
  12. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    I've just had cause to update my review of WG's History of a Hundred Centuries with yet another example of the sticky-bail syndrome. In addition, therefore, to the following-- --we now have this: The occasion was the first-ever Test Match on English soil. Grace went on to score 152. This is...
  13. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Should've tightened up the prose a bit: What I wanted to say was that, among Grace's contemporaries, at the start and at the finish of his career, the Haywards were second best in the century-scoring stakes. That's how I understood Max's post. Thanks again, though.
  14. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Thanks, Andrew. I'm afraid I didn't look that far back. Will alter it presently. Shall I just credit you as "AndrewB"? I've either forgotten or never knew your surname. :) So chuffed, by the way, to see that people actually do read my footnotes.
  15. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Cheers. Enjoyed your review of Sundial in the Shade, by the way: Another good reason to get a Kindle is its word-search function. That would obviate your frustrations with the missing index.
  16. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Would that be the "Featured" checkbox?
  17. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Done. With footnotes and everything!
  18. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    I'm just about sorted. What's the protocol for hitting "Publish"?
  19. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Cheers, mate.
  20. neville cardus

    Cricket Books

    Oh dear. Completely forgot about my own promised effort: Forgivable, I suppose, when we remember that it's the first book I've reviewed for CricketWeb which features no badly-written ***. I'd do the Berita thing myself, but it no longer accepts my log-in details. If there's another way of...

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