David Kelly

Coming this week George Ayling: Sergeant Major and Test Umpire by Michael Jones "With assiduous research, and the assistance of military and educational bodies in both England and India, Michael Jones has put together this detailed account of Ayling’s life" - Keith Walmsley

This Sunday the Historical Society are at the pub vs cricket team match with an exhibition of cricket through the years. It's been played for many years and from different grounds. Pop along to our tent to get the full story.

It’s back to Scotland for Martin with this review, of the fifth of Richard Miller’s collections of historic cricket writing cricketweb.net/books/north-in… @CricketWebNet

From the pen of a very skilful biographer, Bill Francis, we have a biography of the man who in 1978 led New Zealand to their first Test match victory over England cricketweb.net/books/mark-bur… @CricketWebNet

New publications about Victor Trumper continue, and this one is a collector’s item of the highest quality cricketweb.net/books/i-knew-a… @CricketWebNet

As well as being one of England’s fastest ever bowlers Frank Tyson was also a fine writer cricketweb.net/from-the-pen-o… @CricketWebNet

Here we have a new book from one of our favourite small publishers, and one which will be of particular interest to those interested in ‘The Surrey Poet’ cricketweb.net/books/albert-c…

In this post Martin looks at the life and times of Denzil Batchelor, a career writer who led a varied and interesting life cricketweb.net/denzil-batchel…

For this week’s second review Martin has tracked down a recently published autobiography from Sri Lanka cricketweb.net/books/passiona…

In this post Martin looks at the life and times of Denzil Batchelor, a career writer who led a varied and interesting life cricketweb.net/denzil-batchel…

Cheers Andrew. Available from rpcricketbooks@iprimus.com.au and me. Other outlets TBA.

It has been a while since we had a new book from India, but Gulu Ezekiel and Vijay Lokapally have brought us a title that was well worth the wait cricketweb.net/books/speed-me… @CricketWebNet @gulu1959 @vijaylokapally

This week we have a review of another excellent biography from Australia, and we understand it will not be the last this year cricketweb.net/books/invincib… #cricketbooks

It may not be obvious from the review, but here at CricketWeb Towers we believe this is Martin’s way of complaining about the recent absence of new publications from the Sussex Cricket Museum cricketweb.net/books/ted-dext… #cricketbooks

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It may not be obvious from the review, but here at CricketWeb Towers we believe this is Martin’s way of complaining about the recent absence of new publications from the Sussex Cricket Museum cricketweb.net/books/ted-dext… @CricketWebNet

This week we have a review of another excellent biography from Australia, and we understand it will not be the last this year cricketweb.net/books/invincib… @CricketWebNet @KenCricket

Great review of a great writer’s career. Brodribb did publish one other non-cricket book, “Hastings and Men of Letters”, in 1954, revised 1971. Even so, there were three cricketers included in his survey of Hastings writers, Haygarth, G D Martineau and Thomas Parkin.

…. and if proof were needed this review is clear evidence that a self-published limited edition can get Martin’s seal of approval even if it has nothing at all to do with Lancashire cricketweb.net/books/gilbert-… @CricketWebNet @BattersbyDave

Red Rose Books’ latest publication has just appeared and, with its Lancastrian subject matter, it is no surprise that Martin has read and enjoyed it already cricketweb.net/books/alec-wat… @CricketWebNet @Cricket_Books