Not many cricket writers in the 1960s had cause to be pleased with a review of their work by Rowland Bowen – Ralph Barker was one of the few
A BIBLIOPHILE'S BLOG
The last few months have seen a number of interesting books released, and as long as most of the titles apparently in the offing actually get published that looks set to carry on in the New Year
This post takes a look at the life and works of Gerard Martineau, a writer well known in the 1950s and 60s
Women’s cricket and attitudes towards it have changed a great deal over the years – in this post Martin goes back to 1933 to see how the subject was viewed then
In this post Martin looks at the life and work of AA Thomson, a Yorkshireman from the Cardus school of cricket writing
Martin takes another look at Neville Cardus this week, but from a slightly different perspective to last time
In this post Martin looks at the work of a writer who, half a century ago, was one of the best known cricketing authors around
A prolific cricket writer between the wars EHD Sewell is all but forgotten today – in this post Martin looks at why that is the case
It’s time the blog had a look at another dealer/publisher, and in this post Martin looks at the history of Boundary Books’ many, varied and rather special publishing activities
There have not been too many Scottish Test cricketers. Of those there have been Ian Peebles was arguably the best, and was certainly the most notable writer amongst them