It inevitably takes the candid brilliance of a rare author to chronicle the life of a coruscating genius. Duncan Hamilton proceeds to do exactly that in "Immortals". Without sympathy or sycophancy, Hamilton proceeds to lay bare the turbulent life of one of the greatest and gifted footballers of all time. A life characterized by triumph … Continue reading Immortal by Duncan Hamilton

61,670 runs at an average of 50.70; 199 centuries and 273 fifties make Jack Hobbs the absolute don of the statistical spectrum in cricket. Devastating on the field and dignified off it this legend strode the cricketing world like a colossus brooking no opposition and breaking every possible record. In this magnificent chronicle of the … Continue reading Jack Hobbs England’s Greatest Cricketer by Leo McKinstry

Sir Issac Newton was extolled by the poet Alexander Pope thus: "Nature and nature's law lay hid in night; God said "Let Newton be" and all was Light!" For an enthusiastic reader thirsting for an easy first acquaintance with the principles and philosophies of this unsurpassed physicist, James Gleick's concise biography is the pick of … Continue reading Isaac Newton by James Gleick

"Archie Jackson The Keats Of Cricket" is a surreal tribute by the indefatigable David Frith to a preternatural cricketing talent whose budding career was tragically nipped. Archie Jackson, a contemporary of Sir Donald Bradman was all of 23 years old, when he breathed his last, having been stricken by a virulent bout of Tuberculosis. A … Continue reading

“The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.” John Grierson Haruki Murakami’s latest and most eagerly anticipated offering “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years Of Piligrimage”, is a hollow disappointment, a meek concoction of reluctant whorls and a flawed attempt at replicating expected … Continue reading Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel (Translator)

John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek, two high priests of finance poured forth from their respective ideological pulpits more than eighty years ago. Their polemics and preaching had such reverberations that they spawned a new divide of loyal pupils. A divide that carries on the legacy long after their Masters have gone. On one side … Continue reading Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics by Nicholas Wapshott

  A stupendous collection of nine Science Fiction stories penned by the authority on his preferred genre - Issac Asimov. The stories touch upon aberrant behaviour by robots, evocative telepathy underlying human interactions with extraordinary creations of metal agglomerated with complex circuitry and the perennial conflict between man and machine. This thought provoking assimilation of … Continue reading

Gideon Haigh is universally acclaimed as the greatest living cricket author. However it is not cricket that attracts his thoughts in this small book. Haigh passionately dwells into the woes plaguing the automobile industry in Australia and succinctly traces the imperiled path to doom traversed by this once booming industry. Government subsidies, import tariffs, ever … Continue reading End of the Road? by Gideon Haig

A rousing anthology of some of the most peculiar, phenomenal and pernicious incidents to have burnished and tarnished a cricket field in equal measure. The incidents are more of "Eye witness" accounts as they are narrated by the protagonists in their own words and employing their own emotions. Whether it be Dennis Lillee brandishing an … Continue reading

He wrote the finest ever book on cricket. But he was also a man of remarkably versatile talents and personalities. Dave Renton pries open the life of Cyril Lionel Robert James and what is revealed is a kaleidoscopic variety of accomplishments. A Trotskyite, a Marxist for life, intellectual, magnificent orator, statesman, a fervent advocate of … Continue reading C. L. R. James: cricket’s philosopher king by David Renton