This week we welcome writer Peter Kettle to the blog, who has provided a detailed review and analysis of Mark Peel’s recent biography of Mike Brearley
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In this post Martin takes a look at the life of a noted cricket historian, who is also one of the game’s most collectable authors
Best remembered as a broadcaster Don Mosey was also a fine writer. In this post Martin looks at the literary legacy of an archetypal Yorkshireman
Sixty years ago an autobiography from Jim Laker ruffled more feathers than any cricket book before or since. In this post Martin tells the story of Over to Me
It’s that time of year again, as Martin takes his twice yearly look at recently released books, and those that publishers have in store for us in the coming months
After a recent post on Alan Gibson Martin looks at another West Country writer whose work was touched with genius, David Foot
This week we welcome Bangalore based Stanley Carvalho to the blog, who tells us about his city’s leading collector
This week we take a belated look at one of cricket’s excellent specialist imprints, the publishing arm of Christopher Saunders Books
By no means the most prolific cricket writer of his time, Alan Gibson was nonetheless one of the very best
In this post Martin revisits one of the earliest books of cricketing reminiscences, and the life and times of the man who wrote it