Awards

• Short-listed for British Sports Book Awards: Best Cricket Book 2010
• Shortlisted for British Sports Book Awards: Best Cricket Book 2010.
• Winner of British Sports Book Awards: Biography 2010
• Winner of British Sports Book Awards: Biography 2010.
• Winner of William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2009
• Winner of William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2009.

Overview

Full Product Details

9781849162074

Table of Contents

Reviews

A near-masterpiece... a magnificently written, intensely moving story of... a great England fast bowler. ... If you want to know why the Ashes matter, you could do worse then lose yourself for a few days in the story of this great and humble man.' Mike Atherton, the Times. Wonderful ... Meticulously researched and beautifully written. Please read it.' Mike Selvey, Guardian. This is cricket biography of the highest stamp, fit to compare in recent memory with Gideon Haigh's excavation of the life of Jack Iverson, David Foot's dramatic revisionism on Wally Hammond and Leo McKinstry's remarkably even-handed portrait of Geoff Boycott. Five stars.' Wisden Cricketer. Vivid portrayal of his subject an excellent cricket biography, one of the best of recent times. Thoroughly recommended' All Out Cricket. A brilliant book, encompassing themes way beyond the narrow confines of sport' The Times. Finally his memory is honoured with the biography it deserves' Independent on Sunday.

Author Information

Duncan Hamilton has won three William Hill Sports Book of the Year Prizes. He has been nominated on a further four occasions. He has also claimed two British Sports Book Awards and is the first writer to have won the Wisden Cricket Book of the Year on three occasions. His biography of the Chariots of Fire runner Eric Liddell, For the Glory, was a New York Times bestseller. He most recently collaborated with Jonny Bairstow on the cricketer's autobiography, A Clear Blue Sky. He lives at the foot of the Yorkshire Dales.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available