Golden amateur

May 31, 2009: A businessman, a soldier, a lavishly talented cricketer: Stanley Jackson embodied one of cricket's greatest ages

Where are the Indians?

May 17, 2009: English and Australian players have not been shy when it comes to writing their life stories; not so the Indians

Hallowed and much covered

May 3, 2009: On the wealth of writing about the most storied cricket ground there is

The other Plum

Apr 19, 2009: On PG Wodehouse's cricket connection

The passionate poet

Apr 5, 2009: Edmund Blunden's Cricket Country laments the passing of an age and revels in the timelessness of the game

Where to get 'em

Mar 22, 2009: In which your columnist dishes out some handy book-hunting advice

One writer, many hats

Feb 22, 2009: Ramachandra Guha is a polymath who happens to write superbly on cricket

The piper's new master

Feb 8, 2009: On India's dominance of cricket, and a book that tells of a plan to thwart it

History via poetry

Jan 25, 2009: GD Martineau's writing was about the journey, not the destination

Cashman and the Demon

Jan 10, 2009: An Australian historian who produced a classic on Indian cricket and one on a fast-bowling legend

Post scripts

Dec 14, 2008: On the evolution of the cricket obituary

Writing from the middle

Nov 30, 2008: The ranks of players turned writers worth reading are disappointingly thin

The g word

Nov 16, 2008: How does one define greatness in an innings?

Ed the head

Nov 2, 2008: Ed Smith is among the most intelligent and articulate interpreters of sport going

Kinds of funny

Oct 19, 2008: There's a wide range of humorous cricket writing - from Berkmann to Hollowood to Johnston

My friend the bookseller

Oct 5, 2008: Thirty-five years ago John McKenzie opened a bookshop in Surrey that has since grown to be a mecca for collectors of cricket titles

A quiet goodbye

Sep 21, 2008: Perhaps Bradman's farewell was all the more memorable for being unspectacular

In the line of Cardus

Sep 7, 2008: NS Ramaswami's rank among the more literary cricket writers is assured. It was only fitting he assumed the pen name he did

Grand rapids

Aug 24, 2008: The best books on fast bowling are written by those who haven't faced their subjects across a pitch

Pen mightier than bat

Aug 10, 2008: Rumours of the death of cricket literature are highly exaggerated: Peter Roebuck is writing still

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