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#1 Posted : 23 March 2012 19:43:30
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So what is everyone reading this Spring? There appear to be several new cricket and/or Yorkshire cricket titles in the bookstores, so let us know what you are reading and what you like. Longer book reviews are welcome.

Some titles to consider...

Magnificent Seven: Yorkshire's Champions of the Championship Years (Andrew Collomosse)

We'll Get 'Em in Sequins: Manliness, Yorkshire Cricket and the Century That Changed Everything (Max Davidson)

Fred Trueman: The Authorised Biography (Chris Waters)

World Cricket Records 2012 (Chris Hawkes)

When Cricket Was Cricket: A Nostalgic Look at a Century of the Greatest Game (Adam Powley)
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#2 Posted : 24 March 2012 12:03:39
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Another book that would certainly be worth a read is Twirlymen: The Unlikely History of Cricket's Greatest Spin Bowlers by Amol Rajan. It is a compelling read and contains lots of Yorkshire references, including Wifred Rhodes, George Hirst, and Hedley Verity.
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#3 Posted : 24 March 2012 17:05:54
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Asked this before: anyone else read Chinaman ? I thought it was a great novel.
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#4 Posted : 09 April 2012 19:03:47
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...........and Chinaman is now out in paperback
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#5 Posted : 09 April 2012 23:11:07
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I read Chinaman and found it full of vitality and wit but somewhat rambling in its structure. I learned quite a bit about Sri Lankan culture and society; not so much about cricket.
Worth a read, in my view, but be prepared to work quite hard.
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#6 Posted : 16 April 2012 15:32:45
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According to the YP on Saturday, Chirs Waters biography of Fred Trueman won the award. Well done Chris.

Waters attended the Wisden pre-season dinner on the eve of the season when it was announced.

With Duncan Hamilton having previously won the award (well I assume he must have done for Larwood or his book on the English season a few years back) we really have been spoiled by local journalists - or are all the southern journalists too frightened to write a book?
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Hamilton did- List of Winners.
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#8 Posted : 16 April 2012 19:45:57
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JG wrote:
Hamilton did- List of Winners.

Thanks JG and whoever moved my new post to this more suitable thread.

The list proves further that northern writers are a class act with Hamilton and Chalke both winning twice.

I have just listened to Ed Smith on the radio pontificating about his new book about luck in sport. He does like to write from a different slant to others who go down the biography and statistical route but I doubt I will be buying his book having heard him.

For a better book on a similar theme but looking at it from the angle of being coached or born into a successful career the excellent Matthew Syeds book, Bounce, is far better
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#9 Posted : 16 April 2012 21:02:48
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I've actually quite enjoyed the couple of books I've read by Ed Smith, he certainly does have a different approach to most (I imagine most cricketers writing books don't have an Oxbridge double first though...) Not read Syed's book, it does sound quite interesting.
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#11 Posted : 17 April 2012 15:29:22
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thanks - some useful and intersting options for the summer hols.

Its bad enough former players writing books on cricket, but now we have Dads of former players writing books about their sons careers as well
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#12 Posted : 17 April 2012 16:07:55
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I am intrigued by the title Get 'em in Sequins. Has anyone read it? For some reason there is little interest in Yorkshire Cricket down here on the South Coast, so I have no-one else to ask. Manliness in Yorkshire Cricket is potentially a great subject.

I am very much looking forward to attending the match next week against Kent.
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#13 Posted : 17 April 2012 17:00:03
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Geoff12 wrote:
I am intrigued by the title Get 'em in Sequins. Has anyone read it? For some reason there is little interest in Yorkshire Cricket down here on the South Coast, so I have no-one else to ask. Manliness in Yorkshire Cricket is potentially a great subject.

I am very much looking forward to attending the match next week against Kent.



Hope you're still feeling as sunny after the match.

Get 'em in sequins - quite a good read I thought, but its focus is very much on a hundred years of changing masculinity and the Yorkshire players are the pegs he uses to hang his thread on. The chapter on FST has very little on him as a fast bowler for instance. If you want a biography of the players concerned it's not the right book, but if you know all you need to about them and fancy something different I'd recommend it. Quite moving in places, particularly on Hedley Verity. Was going to get it for my dad's 90th, but it mentioned both homosexuality and masturbation in the early pages. Then it started going on about emotions........
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I just received my Playfair 2012 along with Magnificant Seven: Yorkshire's Championship Years (Andrew Collomosse). I'll post a review as soon as I finish it.

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In an England cricket eleven, the flesh may be of the South, but the bone is of the North, and the backbone is Yorkshire. (Sir Len Hutton)
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Idle Man wrote:
Geoff12 wrote:
I am intrigued by the title Get 'em in Sequins. Has anyone read it? For some reason there is little interest in Yorkshire Cricket down here on the South Coast, so I have no-one else to ask. Manliness in Yorkshire Cricket is potentially a great subject.

I am very much looking forward to attending the match next week against Kent.



Hope you're still feeling as sunny after the match.

Get 'em in sequins - quite a good read I thought, but its focus is very much on a hundred years of changing masculinity and the Yorkshire players are the pegs he uses to hang his thread on. The chapter on FST has very little on him as a fast bowler for instance. If you want a biography of the players concerned it's not the right book, but if you know all you need to about them and fancy something different I'd recommend it. Quite moving in places, particularly on Hedley Verity. Was going to get it for my dad's 90th, but it mentioned both homosexuality and masturbation in the early pages. Then it started going on about emotions........



Thanks Idle Man, I'm interested in Yorkshire Cricket's History already and I'll order this book right now. I thought it might have been a biography of Darren Gough. However from your description this sounds much more interesting.

I'll send my reflections on the Kent match when I return home from Canterbury.
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#16 Posted : 10 May 2012 14:53:39
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Not Yorkshire cricket writing I know but I came across this & thought it may interst some on here:
http://www.guardian.co.u...atting?CMP=EMCSPTEML942

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#17 Posted : 10 May 2012 17:23:36
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I'm currently reading the O'Neill book mentioned in that piece, or I would be doing if I had time at the moment- it'll probably have to wait 'til I go on holiday.
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I'm currently reading the O'Neill book mentioned in that piece, or I would be doing if I had time at the moment- it'll probably have to wait 'til I go on holiday.


I read it a couple of years ago & enjoyed it.
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I see Chris Water's book on Fred Trueman - a triple-award winner - is now out in paperback; if you haven't read it, get it, read it and enjoy..........................
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