Arunabha Sengupta reviews baseball-linked historical crime thriller Double Play by Robert B Parker
Read MoreStories Behind Books: Prospero Caliban Cricket by John Agard
In this episode of Stories Behind Books, Mayukh Ghosh looks at the story behind Prospero Caliban Cricket by John Agard
Read MoreBook Review: Dreaming the Impossible by Mihir Bose
Dreaming the Impossible by Mihir Bose comes through with flying ‘colours’ writes Arunabha Sengupta
Read MoreBook Review: Maverick Commissioner - A story that needed to be told
Maverick Commissioner by Boria Majumdar was a story that needed to be told, writes Arunabha Sengupta
Read More85 Not Out: Detailed and often delightful
Arunabha Sengupta reviews Ted Dexter’s new autobiography 85 Not Out
Read MoreBonaventure and the Flashing Blade: When Gar(r)y Sobers lent his name to science fiction
In 1967, at the height of his cricketing prowess and fame, Garry Sobers lent his name to a cricket-based science fiction novel Bonaventure and the Flashing Blade. Arunabha Sengupta talks about this little known work of fiction supposedly penned by the great man.
Read MoreSir Garfield Sobers: The Baylands’ Favourite Son - a valuable addition to the Sobers shelf
Sir Garfield Sobers: The Bayland’s Favourite Son by Keith AP Sandiford : An important addition to the Sobers shelves of the cricket library
Read MorePlaying the Game - A novel on Ranji by a Dutch author
Ian Buruma’s ‘Playing the Game’ is an unusual delight for the cricket lovers — a novel on the life of KS Ranjitsinhji. Arunabha Sengupta talks about stumbling across this little known title in the streets of Amsterdam and the many treasures one can discover by thumbing through the pages of this engrossing work.
Read MoreThe Amazing Test Match Crime - a book essential for every lover of literature and cricket
The Ashes 1938 series was shared between Wally Hammond’s England and Don Bradman’s Australians. And the next Ashes Test would be played only in 1946-47, after the last bullet of the Second World War had been fired. However, one further Ashes encounter was played during this interlude, on the fictitious pitch of a hilarious novel written by Adrian Alington published in 1939. Arunabha Sengupta describes the book which should be in the collection of every lover of literature and cricket.
Read MoreTestKill - Ted Dexter's not too elegant strokes with the pen
April, 1976. Ted Dexter completed his crime novel ‘Testkill’, written in collaboration with Clifford Mankins.Arunabha Sengupta writes about the book which mixed cricket and murder mystery and was released on the first day of the 1976 Test series between England and West Indies.
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