We like our cricket history here on the review team, and Patrick Ferriday has provided us with a real treat this week.
CRICKET BOOKS
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.
This week Archie reviews a biography of the first man of West Indian descent to play Test cricket.
This week’s book doesn’t sound too promising, but it seems from David’s review that the old adage about not judging books by their cover applies.
Given Archie’s glowing endorsement, and the fact that there are only 135 copies available, it would seem that potential purchasers of Blighted Lives should place their orders now.
In the week that England have retained the Ashes, Martin reviews a biography of arguably the greatest Ashes skipper of them all.
Martin has spent the last few weeks searching for news about the books we can expect to see in 2011, and some that sneaked under the CricketWeb radar in 2010.
The final part of our series brings us up to 2009 and shows that, despite tour books generally being a thing of the past, Ashes series are as popular in print as ever.