A Last English Summer: by the author of 'The Great Romantic: cricket and the Golden Age of Neville Cardus'

A Last English Summer: by the author of 'The Great Romantic: cricket and the Golden Age of Neville Cardus'

by Duncan Hamilton
A Last English Summer: by the author of 'The Great Romantic: cricket and the Golden Age of Neville Cardus'

A Last English Summer: by the author of 'The Great Romantic: cricket and the Golden Age of Neville Cardus'

by Duncan Hamilton

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Overview

From matches played on a village green to the high-church splendour of Lord's, in A Last English Summer, award-winning author Duncan Hamilton preserves the 2009 cricket season, a seminal, convulsive time in the sport's history. In prose by turns reflective and glorious, he remembers all we have lost whilst displaying an overwhelming love for the game that stands out on every page.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780857383044
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Publication date: 04/28/2011
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook
Pages: 384
File size: 29 MB
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About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword: A Golden Age Sort of a Chap. Why Don't You Come Back When It's Less Busy? For the Islands, He Sang. Taking Tea with Neville Cardus. See the Conquering Hero Comes. And Still the Gas-Works. The Unbelievable Lightness of Fielding. Yes, I'll Remember Aigburth. He That Plays the King. Instead of a Telegram. It's a Clearing Shower in These Parts. On the Shoulders of Giants. Riding the Charabanc to Lord's. The Man in the Unmarked Grave. The Poet of Penrhyn Avenue. The Crimson Petal and the White. First Love, Last Love. A Moral Lesson From Lord Harris. The Captain in the Baggy Green. A Very Perfect Gentle Knight. Author Notes and Acknowledgements. Postscript. Statistics of Summer. Bibliography. Index.

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