Reviews 

Holding was a West Indian fast bowler in the 70’s & 80’s, now a cricket commentator. This is extraordinary, written out of years of...

The full title continues ‘of English cricket'. But I couldn’t really work out whether it was a parallel biography of these 2 cricket...

A great cricket book, first published in 1963, at the end of this Ashes series, about 3 years before I got interested in cricket. Ross...

Needed something light after Henry James. I have read this before, years ago, and my impression hasn’t changed much - despite being...

A change from the novels, but this was (I wrote pretty lightweight) but with hindsight I would say execrable. From the hotel library. Get...

Another book from the ‘Best Crime Thriller’ website. Patrick Neate (or at least his hero) is a Ugandan Asian private eye, living in...

Another one from the attic, I don’t know why as there is lots of space in cricket books downstairs. This is about Botham’s Ashes in 1981....

Hard to comment on this. Of course as a cricket fan, interested to read his book. But it is such an apologia for KP, and such a...

Another cricket related birthday present, but this is a brilliant travel book, and the cricket is just a coat hanger to steer him...

Lots of books as birthday presents. This I don’t think is one of the most distinguished, but people know I am a cricket fan. Miles Jupp,...

Haven’t read a cricketing biography for years, and probably won’t repeat the experience for a while. Get this on Amazon