Three of the Review Team have spent this week reading Mike Harfield’s second book – here is what we thought of it.
CRICKET BOOKS
In recent years there have been numerous publications of books detailing the successes and, far more commonly, the extreme failures of lower grade cricket teams. Rain Men and its sequel Zimmer Men by Marcus Berkmann, Gideon Haigh’s The Vincibles, Harry Thompson’s When Penguins Stopped Play, and Fatty Batter by Michael Simkins are all examples of […]
It must be a very special book for Martin and Archie to agree on a 5 star rating – but then Ashes 2011 is written by Gideon Haigh.
This week David has reviewed the 1978 autobiography of one of Martin’s favourite cricketers, The Old Bald Blighter.
A change of emphasis for our second book this week as Martin reviews an umpire’s story.
Due to a small backlog we will be putting up two reviews this week so please come back in a few days, when we will look at another recently published book.
We like our cricket history here on the review team, and Patrick Ferriday has provided us with a real treat this week.
This week we are grateful to forum member Matt Smith for his review of a long awaited biography of one of New Zealand’s finest.
A little late, but for the best possible reason, we are finally able to reveal the CW Book of the Year for last year
Next week we will name the CW Book of the Year for 2010, and explain the reason for the delay in its announcement. In the meantime Martin has been reading something rather special.