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The Cricket Lover's Compendium

19 September 2011
The Cricket Lover's Compendium

These solid compendiums are full to the brim with quotes, jokes, trivia and enough sport-inspired fun to delight all sports lovers across the Kingdom. So when one has sunk their last put, removed their broken body from the scrum, cried ‘All out’ and heard the final whistle blow, they can curl up with one of these fine editions and enjoy some of the wise and humorous thoughts on sport from well-known names throughout history.

PUBLICATION DETAILS

Hardback • £9.99 • Black and White Illustrations • 192 pages • 5th September 2011

THE FOOTBALL LOVER’S COMPANION
Ben Fraser - ISBN: 978 1 84953 175 7

‘There’s no in between – you’re either good or bad. We were in between.’Gary Lineker on England

THE CRICKET LOVER’S COMPANION
Richard Benson - ISBN: 978 1 84953 174 0

‘I’m confident they play cricket in heaven. Wouldn’t be heaven otherwise, would it?’ Patrick Moore

THE GOLF LOVER’S COMPANION
Ben Fraser - ISBN: 978 1 84953 176 4

‘Golf is not a relaxation. Golf is a religion.’ Sir Bob Reid

THE RUGBY LOVER’S COMPANION
Steven Gauge - ISBN: 978 1 84953 173 3
‘My drinking team has a rugby problem.’ Oscar Wilde

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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'.
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