Australian cricket

Ian Chappell's cricket book collection auctioned off

Feb 3, 2016 The great cricketer's great cricket book collection has fetched Aus $8,000 for charity

The power that books hold

Oct 28, 2014 We may not be strangers to what players say, but we still tend to accord their words greater respect when they're on paper and between two covers

The dark subtexts of cricket literature

Aug 7, 2014 Why reading acclaimed works from decades ago is often revealing

A Derbyshire fan in Melbourne

Jun 20, 2014 How books, magazines and live scorecard updates allowed an Australian teenager to keep track of county cricket in the 1990s

The generous lender of cricket magazines

Jun 6, 2014 Having a neighbour with a cornucopia of cricket literature can be a life-changing experience

In praise of Margaret Hughes

Jan 30, 2014 The first woman to write to a high standard on the game was treated a bit like a circus freak when she appeared on the scene

What I read in 2013

Jan 3, 2014 There's a surge for immediacy in the modern media but sports books, especially cricket ones, help you slow down

The art of Bishan Bedi in prose

Nov 24, 2013 Suresh Menon's biography on the great Indian left-arm spinner is essential reading for all young tweakers

The little cricket magazine that endured

Nov 20, 2013 The ABC Cricket Book was a faithful companion to generations of Australian kids growing up with the game