Archie knows as much as most about the era in which Tibby Cotter played, so as he clearly rates this biography it must be a worthwhile purchase
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Our run of quality titles continues this week with a new book from Australia, which has also just been released in the UK.
I believe this book has appeared in an edition of as many as five hundred copies, so collecting badges with a cricketing theme can’t be that obscure a hobby
Who would have thought it? Our man Archie thoroughly enjoying a book as contemporary as it is possible to get.
A curious piece of Victoriana for Archie this week, the intention of which seems to have become rather less clear with the passage of time.
We’re a bit late this year, but with this being a special edition of the good book, there was rather more for Archie to read than in the past.
This week Archie reviews a recent biography of a member of the Australian side who played in the 1912 Triangular series in England, Jimmy Mattthews.
To get a book about Australian cricket prior to the Great War past the eyes of Archie Mac without his red pen being used is quite an achievement, but Malcolm Knox seems to have done that at a canter.
This book is unlikely to have a further edition now, but surely someone could produce a second volume to continue CMJ’s magnum opus to the present day?
A full biography of Charlie Turner is long overdue, and it seems from Archie’s review that Ric Sissons has plugged that particular gap in the game’s literature very well indeed.