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Pataudi: Nawab of Cricket

The many Pataudis

May 12, 2013: Twenty-two essays delve into the legacy of one of Indian cricket's most significant figures

Soumya Bhattacharya

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack

A happy 150th to the big yellow brick

Apr 10, 2013: Another year, another Almanack. Only, this year's is rather a landmark

Les Smith

The Test of My Life

An inspiring story, simply told

Apr 6, 2013: The tale of how Yuvraj Singh beat cancer and came back to cricket is now the subject of a book that reveals the man behind the allrounder

Suresh Menon

The Art of Losing

Spotlight on South Africa's hoodoo

Mar 9, 2013: An attempt at examining why they bottle it in major tournaments

Firdose Moonda

Brave New Pitch

A brave first draft of history

Mar 2, 2013: Cricket's turbulent last half-decade is chronicled here with an open-minded spirit of inquiry

Ashok Malik

The Bowling Was Superfine

Large-hearted, red-blooded, Caribbean

Feb 24, 2013: A capacious anthology that straddles genres and themes and contains a multitude of voices in an attempt to capture West Indian cricket

Sharda Ugra

On Warne

Warnie, warts and all

Jan 26, 2013: Gideon Haigh trains his masterly eye on one of the most compelling cricketers of all time

Daniel Brettig

Centurion

Of Tendulkar among other things

Jan 6, 2013: A genre-defying new book brings together sport, philosophy and fiction

Sharda Ugra

Bent Arms and Dodgy Pitches

Behind the facade of England's fifties

Dec 29, 2012: A new book looks at the less-than-pleasant backdrop to England's dominance in the post-war years

Rob Steen

The Wrong Line

A life on the cricket-writing treadmill

Dec 23, 2012: Andrew Ramsey's account of his days as a cricket journalist (and why he called it a day) is a fine book, but it ought to have gone further

Gideon Haigh

Cricket books of 2012

Blagger, swagger, fanatical amateur

Dec 13, 2012: As Christmas approaches, we round up a selection of the great and good cricket books from 2012

ESPNcricinfo staff

The Sweetest Rose

Wounded but blooming

Dec 8, 2012: Yorkshire cricket's turbulent and colourful story - Boycott and all - is faithfully told in this new book

Pat Gibson

Cricket on Everest

Tall tales of cricket

Nov 25, 2012: The story of the intrepid men who played cricket on the world's highest mountain for a good cause

Alan Gardner

Going Barmy

Cricket nuts are people too

Oct 27, 2012: This book offers the story of England's much misunderstood band of travelling supporters from the inside

Rob Steen

Micky Stewart and the Changing Face of Cricket

A man for troubled times

Oct 13, 2012: Stephen Chalke's book on Micky Stewart is neither a biography nor an autobiography, but it works because it tells fascinating stories about its very likeable subject

Paul Edwards

Howzat: Kerry Packer's War

World Series Cricket - no more an outcast

Sep 2, 2012: The dramatisation of the Packer affair is just as exciting as all the drama that unfolded 35 years ago

Brydon Coverdale

Australia Blues

A Scottish gaze at the Ashes

Aug 5, 2012: An amusing travelogue where cricket is a sidelight, written by two fans who are insiders as well as outsiders

Alex Bowden

Third Man in Havana

Cricket tales from here and there

Jul 7, 2012: Tom Rodwell has been there, seen that and borne witness to the game's power to uplift

Rob Steen

The Taliban Cricket Club

A different kind of Afghan story

Jun 16, 2012: Dread, romance and cricket come together in this novel set in the time of the Taliban

Sharda Ugra

Steve James: The Plan

Inside England's success story

Jun 9, 2012: This account of the 13 years it took to become No. 1 - from Fletcher to Flower - is a must-read for fans of English cricket

Sam Collins
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