The Cricket Writers’ Club has published its shortlist for its Book of the Year competition, the winner to be announced at its 70th anniversary annual lunch on September 27
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10 Sep
2016
2016
Terry’s all gold, across 50 key matches
ERIC BROWN reviews the latest book from Simon Hughes about the part of his game that always left him stumped
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ERIC BROWN reviews the autobiography of one of cricket’s most colourful all-rounders
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SJA members are invited to the book launch of colleague Anthony Clavane’s latest book, which outlines the sporting decline in Yorkshire and across the country
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The Liverpool Echo’s award-winning Everton football writer has produced the sort of book about the life of a sports journalist which, according to ANTON RIPPON, will probably never be possible to write again
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Clichés are to be avoided like the plague, according to one newspaper style book. And now someone has compiled a book full of them. By STEVEN DOWNES
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The Premier League season is about to start, with the unlikely phrase “defending champions Leicester City” about to be used. ERIC BROWN reviews a book which charts a season which defied the 5,000/1 odds
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From Pickwick Papers to their European exploits spread across the back pages of the tabloids, the first 150 years of ‘the original reds’ offer many fascinating football stories, as ERIC BROWN discovered
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Gus Honeybun… Your Boys Took One Hell of a Beating is the first book to be published by Simon Carter, the sports editor of the Southern Daily Echo, who carries the unfortunate burden of being a fan of his home town team, the spectacularly unsuccessful Exeter City
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