June16 The Bird O’ Freedom Portrait Gallery of Golden Age Cricketers by: Martin Chandler It is difficult to summarise this one, other than to say it was an excellent idea, and has been very well done
June09 A Long Way To Go by: Archie Mac and Martin Chandler If this one doesn’t pick up the Australian Cricket Society book of the year title there must be something very special due in the coming months
June09 A Schoolboy’s Cricketing Summer: Having The Time of my Life by: Martin Chandler This one is a nostalgic look at Lancashire cricket, so no prizes for guessing who enjoyed reading it
June02 Salim Durani: The Prince of Indian Cricket by: Martin Chandler Biographies of Indian cricketers from the 1960s are rare birds, but after this one they will hopefully become more common
June02 Playing to Fix by: Martin Chandler A recent perspective on an old problem is the subject of Paul Radley’s first book
May26 Almost Invincible by: Martin Chandler In 1984 England lost each of the five Tests in a home series against West Indies and now, forty years on, we have a book on the series
May26 Getting Out by: Martin Chandler Few will be familiar with cricket in the Ukraine, which is just one of several reasons why this book should be widely read
May19 Cricket in Poetry by: Martin Chandler If anyone is looking forward to an anthology of cricketing poetry, this one isn’t it
May19 Not the Spin: Spring 2024 Edition by: Martin Chandler Lancashire supporters have seen the Red Rose have a hugely disappointing start to the 2024 season, but at least we have a new issue of Not The Spin to read
May12 Forgotten Pioneers by: Martin Chandler This one may be well outside the mainstream of cricket literature, but nonetheless deserves to be widely read