Since Victorian times, the MCC had embraced the amateur ideal that cricket was more than a game. ...

Award-winning cricket writer Mark Peel charts the development of the England captaincy - from the...

Never Surrender: The Life of Douglas Jardine is the enthralling story of England's most controver...

The Food of Campanile skillfully blends sophistication and simplicity, making the recipes no...

Yorkshire Grit: The Life of Ray Illingworth is a fascinating account of one of English cricket's ...

This vivid, multi-dimensional history considers the key cultural, social, political and economic ...

Social workers produced thousands of case files about the poor during the interwar years. Analyzi...

Of all games, cricket has long prided itself on its ethical traditions, but to modern sceptics th...

This 2003 book is a fascinating and moving portrait of the people who are suffering in a more div...

Mike Brearley was one of England's greatest cricket captains. He thrice won the Ashes, including ...

For fifty years Shirley Williams has been one of Britain's best-known and best-loved politicians,...

This vivid, multi-dimensional history considers the key cultural, social, political and economic ...