After a recent post on Alan Gibson Martin looks at another West Country writer whose work was touched with genius, David Foot
A BIBLIOPHILE'S BLOG
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
This week we look at the work of Gerald Howat, a number of whose books should be in the library of any discerning bibliophile
In this post Martin looks at the work of a contemporary of Neville Cardus, from the other side of the Pennines
A contemporary of Irving Rosenwater and Rowland Bowen, Roy Webber was not such a colourful character, but remains a ‘person of interest’ as far as we bibliophiles are concerned
This week Martin tells the story of Bruce Harris, a journalist who wrote a number of tour books, starting with one on the famous 1932/33 Ashes series
The name Samuel Canynge Caple is a largely forgotten one except, it would seem, by Martin