For a man who is always happy to remind us he is a Lancashire supporter, it does seem a little odd that Martin reads so many books about Yorkshire cricket
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With the start of the 2019 Cricket World Cup fast approaching this week we review a new book that looks closely at the competition and its history
Getting on for two years after its release we finally get around to reviewing Steve Harmison’s 2017 autobiography
As recently promised Martin has finally got round to reading and reviewing Max Bonnell’s 2001 book, Currency Lads
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). […]
Cricket does produce a bewildering range of subjects for the bibliophile, and this new book from Christopher Saunders Publishing certainly finds an unusual one
This week, better late than never, we get round to looking at one of the best received cricket books of 2018
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
In this self published labour of love Renato Carini examines the legacy left by Victor Trumper, and like others before him demonstrates why cricketers should never be judged by statistics alone