Summer of 1911. The streets of London ring with cheers for a new king's coronation and the cries of increasingly violent suffragette protests.
Connie Callaway, fired up by the possibilities of independence, wants more than the conventional comforts of marriage. Spirited and courageous, she is determined to fight for 'the greatest cause the world has ever known'.
Fanatical about cricket since he was a boy, Miles Jupp award winning stand up and actor (BBC2’s REV / THE THICK OF IT) would do anything to see his heroes play.
But perhaps deciding to bluff his way into the elite press corps during England’s Test series in India wasn’t his best idea.
Managing Director & CEO Ian Chapman, Kerr MacRae and Rhea Halford of Simon & Schuster (S&S) have signed 25-year-old cricketing all-rounder Stuart Broad in a two-book deal.
The world rights deal was agreed with his agent Neil Fairbrother of International Sports Management.
From the very first time he watched Sachin Tendulkar bat as a 12-year-old boy, Adam Carroll-Smith was transfixed. He dreamed of not just bowling to the ‘Little Master’, but actually knocking his off-stump over, too.