Cricket Books

[Ageing trundler]

A whole room of them at Bookends in Carlisle! Me, Mrs Trundler and the younglings popped in today. Well worth a look if you want to add to your collection.

 

[The Rat]

Do need a knew one just finished penguins stopped play

Sad ending like

One of the funniest books I’ve read

 

[Ageing trundler]

I could have stayed there all day, mainly old ones, Wisdens/biographies/annuals, the best collection I've seen. There are a few newish on the ground floor and all kinds on the second floor. A proper rabbit warren of a shop.

 

[stephen cartwright]

I could have stayed there all day, mainly old ones, Wisdens/biographies/annuals, the best collection I've seen. There are a few newish on the ground floor and all kinds on the second floor. A proper rabbit warren of a shop.

Love raking around bookshops like that

 

[WCC]

Looking forward to this
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Five-Trophies-Funeral-Durham-Cricket/dp/1785314882

 

[The Red Telephone]

Looking forward to this
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Five-Trophies-Funeral-Durham-Cricket/dp/1785314882

As previously mentioned on here Stuart Rayner is down the Riverside on March 7 selling copies of this.

Not that theres many but I do love books on DCCC.

 

[The Rat]

Looking forward to this
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Five-Trophies-Funeral-Durham-Cricket/dp/1785314882

16 quid! a lot like

While this thread is here, anyone got anymore recommendations?

Going to read Derek Pringle’s one next

 

[rentaghost]

Ive read dozens and loads of excellent ones but the D'Oliveira by Peter O'Borne one always comes first for me.

 

[Ageing trundler]

Away from biographies/autobiographies, I enjoyed - The Game Of Life (Scyld Berry), The Last Flanneled Fool (Michael Simkins), The Packer Affair, Anything by Harry Pearson.

 

[The Rat]

Will try the ones above, cheers

 

[Greavsie]

Ive read dozens and loads of excellent ones but the D'Oliveira by Peter O'Borne one always comes first for me.

Brilliant book.
Slightly less known one but I enjoyed Jack Hobbs by Leo McKinstry

 

[rentaghost]

Brilliant book.
Slightly less known one but I enjoyed Jack Hobbs by Leo McKinstry

He's good like. Did a canny Boycott one IIRC

 

[CollingwoodFTM]

Do need a knew one just finished penguins stopped play

Sad ending like

One of the funniest books I’ve read

Great book. I played for and against some of the teams mentioned in the book and knew the lad Cei. Having moved away from London I lost touch with him. Reading about his death in the book was a really strange experience.

 

[mikemanc]

Do need a knew one just finished penguins stopped play

Sad ending like

One of the funniest books I’ve read

That was a really good read, from memory Fatty Batter had a similar sense of humour running through it

 

[Capt. Orr]

I'm not sure if this is still in print but you'd get a copy on Abe Books or somewhere. If you can get a hold of In Quest of the Ashes, Douglas Jardine's classic account of the "Bodyline" Tour, get it. It's a brilliant read and a real insight into the lengths we or any team had to go to to stop Bradman from running a mock.

 

[The Rat]

I'm not sure if this is still in print but you'd get a copy on Abe Books or somewhere. If you can get a hold of In Quest of the Ashes, Douglas Jardine's classic account of the "Bodyline" Tour, get it. It's a brilliant read and a real insight into the lengths we or any team had to go to to stop Bradman from running a mock.

thanks will look for that

 

[The Red Telephone]

Chris Waters' biography of Fred Trueman is an excellent read and is far better than Fiery Fred's 'As it Was' in which amongst other things we are expected to believe that Fred quoted Euripides when he was sacked from his Sunday Post column.

I'm not sure if this is still in print but you'd get a copy on Abe Books or somewhere. If you can get a hold of In Quest of the Ashes, Douglas Jardine's classic account of the "Bodyline" Tour, get it. It's a brilliant read and a real insight into the lengths we or any team had to go to to stop Bradman from running a mock.

Agree about this book.I got it for £1 at the CC Booksale at the Riverside last season.

 

[seanwharton]

Chris Waters' biography of Fred Trueman is an excellent read and is far better than Fiery Fred's 'As it Was' in which amongst other things we are expected to believe that Fred quoted Euripides when he was sacked from his Sunday Post column.



Agree about this book.I got it for £1 at the CC Booksale at the Riverside last season.

Chris Waters’ Trueman biography is magnificent

 

[The Breen Machine]

He's good like. Did a canny Boycott one IIRC

May have been a different thread but I am sure you at some point have given a glowing endorsement of the Boycott biography. Always stuck in my mind so I asked my brother to get me it for Christmas. 6 chapters in and very impressed so far, thanks

Mrs TBM got me this for my birthday last year:

England

The most comprehensive and revealing account of the story of England cricket and cricketers yet published

blackwells.co.uk

Very comprehensive and some fascinating chapters about the origins of test cricket, tours and the class divide between amateurs and gentlemen. as well as the colonial impact.

 

[rentaghost]

May have been a different thread but I am sure you at some point have given a glowing endorsement of the Boycott biography. Always stuck in my mind so I asked my brother to get me it for Christmas. 6 chapters in and very impressed so far, thanks

Mrs TBM got me this for my birthday last year:

England

The most comprehensive and revealing account of the story of England cricket and cricketers yet published

blackwells.co.uk

Very comprehensive and some fascinating chapters about the origins of test cricket, tours and the class divide between amateurs and gentlemen. as well as the colonial impact.

I think it was the Leo McKinstry one I read which was great but there has been others I think. I hope ou enjoy it. Someone bought me Tufnell's for Xmas which I can imagine being a bit more of a lighthearted wheeze!