Cricket, Lovely Cricket is a journey around the perennially curious world of cricket, leaving no metaphorical leg-break unturned and peering at the game from every conceivable angle.Here, Lawrence Booth, who had little option but to turn a youthful obsession with the game into a means of paying the mortgage, seeks to consider the questions that crop up on a daily basis but rarely receive a satisfactory answer. What are the players really like? What is the ...

What's the difference between short leg and deep midwicket? When would you be thinking about bowling a yorker? What's so great about the sound of leather on willow? Cricket’s vocabulary is a mixture of jargon and cliché, poetry and prose, misty-eyed romanticism and old-gits’ cynicism. Arm-ball to Zooter is a witty guide to the peculiarities of the game, its history and major figures; cricket-lovers might find thei...

A TIMES, GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH AND WATERSTONES BEST SPORT BOOK OF THE YEAR'Gripping' Roger Alton, Sunday TimesThe inside story of how England transformed the way Test cricket is played.After one win in 17 by the start of the summer of 2022, England needed something new. For 145 years, Test cricket was played mainly in one way: batters laid a foundation before daring to attack – and, e...

The Shorter Wisden is a compelling distillation of what's best in its bigger brother. Available from all major eBook retailers, Wisden's digital version includes the influential Notes by the Editor, all the front-of-book articles, reviews, obituaries and all England's Tests from the previous season.Brought together for the first time, here are the first five editions of The Shorter Wisden, distilled from the Almanacks published between 2011 and 2015.

Bloomsbury presents Bazball by Nick Hoult and Lawrence Booth, read by David Thorpe.A TIMES, GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH AND WATERSTONES BEST SPORT BOOK OF THE YEAR‘Gripping’ Roger Alton, Sunday TimesThe inside story of how England transformed the way Test cricket is played.After one win in 17 by the start of the summer of 2022, England needed something new. For 145 years, Test cricket was played mainly in one way: batters laid a foundation before daring to attack – a...

Bloomsbury presents The Shorter Wisden 2020 edited by Lawrence Booth, read by David Thorpe, Lawrence Booth and Terry Blake.The Shorter Wisden is a compelling distillation of what's best in its bigger brother – and the 2020 edition of Wisden is crammed, as ever, with the best writing in the game. Wisden's digital version includes the influential Notes by the Editor, and all the front-of-book articles.In an age of snap judgments, Wisden’s authority and integrity are more impo...

When John Wilkes Booth died—shot inside a burning barn and dragged out twelve days after he assassinated President Lincoln—all he had in his pocket were a compass, a candle, a diary, and five photographs of five different women. They were not ordinary women. Four of them were among the most beautiful actresses of the day; the fifth was Booth's wealthy fianc&eacutee.And those five women are just the tip of the iceberg.Before he shot the president of the United States and ent...

The most famous sports book in the world, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack has been published every year since 1864. The selected writings from the 163rd edition contained in this eBook offer trenchant opinion, compelling features and an authoritative voice on the worldwide game.The Shorter Wisden is a distillation of what's best in its bigger brother – and the 2026 edition of Wisden is crammed, as ever, with the best writing in the game. ...

Tomorrow is coming whether you're ready or not.In Darkness, Delight: Fear the Future delivers twenty-two strikingly original tales of terror from Bram Stoker Award®-winners, bestselling authors, genre stalwarts and rising stars.Includes Emmy-winning, New York Times bestselling author and world-famous magician Penn Jillette's delightfully wicked short story "The Pain Addict," which was adapted for a hit sci-fi anthology television series and...

The most famous sports book in the world, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack has been published every year since 1864. This eBook includes the obituaries from the 2026 edition.Cricketers include: Dickie Bird, Bob Cowper, Dilip Doshi, John Jameson, Bernard Julien, Barry Knight, Wayne Larkins, David Lawrence, Peter Lever, Hugh Morris, Ken Shuttleworth, Bobby Simpson, Robin Smith and Keith Stackpole.Other personalities include: Andy Peebles (the disc jockey)...

The Shorter Wisden is a compelling distillation of what's best in its bigger brother. Available from all major eBook retailers, Wisden's digital version includes the influential Notes by the Editor, all the front-of-book articles, reviews, obituaries and all England's Tests from the 2015 season.

The Shorter Wisden is a compelling distillation of what's best in its bigger brother – and the 2022 edition of Wisden is crammed, as ever, with the best writing in the game. Wisden's digital version includes the influential Notes by the Editor, and all the front-of-book articles.In an age of snap judgments, Wisden's authority and integrity are more important than ever. Yet again this year's edition is truly a “must-have” for every cricket fan. In...