This weekend on CricketWeb I review an account of a group of amateurs' largely forgotten visit to North America in 1899, and a fascinating look at the events 1926, including that summer's Ashes contest Stephen Brenkley Fairfield Books Ꮆ㇄ə𝓝𝓝 尸ə七ə尺丂 steve smith

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A slight deviation from my Philadelphia work. Available to buy now at Amazon. An account of the five times that Australia launched their Ashes tour with a game against a Lord Sheffield XI at his private ground in Sheffield Park, "the most beautiful ground in the empire."

Three reviews on CricketWeb this weekend, of a new one on the 'Golden Age' by steve smith and a booklet from Dave Allen on Hampshire Cricket from me, and we also have a guest review, a detailed assessment of 'Young Vic' from renowned biographer Peter Lloyd Cricket Bookseller

New release, available on Amazon, £20 limited edition (125) hardback version or £12.50 paperback, amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F2FGXGX8 Some hardbacks will be available next week through Red Rose Books at a 20% discount, £16 inc postage, reserve now at redrosecricketbooks.com (UK based only)

steve smith has just published this wonderful book about our Club's history. Buy it! amazon.com/dp/B0F5GTS553/…

Latest release, The Staten Island Cricket Club. Special thanks to Joseph O'Neill, author of "Netherland," and V. P. of the club who said; “This extraordinary tribute to the golden age of New York cricket is not only a gripping read but a precious item of social history."

New into the Marylebone Cricket Club Library today, a romantic comedy by Chrissie Harrison, an anthology of new cricket writing, a history of Stragglers of Asia , Steve Smith's latest work on the early history of StatenIslandCricket & a comedic short story on a pub cricket team

Two tour books reviewed on CricketWeb this weekend, both looking back in time, one to North America more than 130 years ago and a visit from an English side led Lord Hawke, and he other a mere 61 years to 1964, The Ashes and the Beatles Association of Cricket Statisticians & Historians steve smith

This one is a tad niche, but anyone interested in Philadelphian cricket should read on CricketWeb steve smith cricketweb.net/books/hawke/

Tomorrow's reviews on CricketWeb are a new book from Pitch Publishing 📚 Sports Books on the impact of mental health issues on cricket and cricketers, and one dealing with the history of cricket in New York and StatenIslandCricket from steve smith

We have three reviews on CricketWeb this Sunday, one of a new book from Jarrod Kimber Bloomsbury Books UK and two on the long gone days when First Class cricket was played by the Gentlemen of Philadelphia Cricket Bookseller steve smith

In 1893 a full strength Australian side visited North America, and were humbled by Philadephia's finest CricketWeb steve smith cricketweb.net/book/phiaus189…

This weekend on CricketWeb I review two recent titles. The first is Vic Marks' look at the England captaincy since 1979 The Nightwatchman Fairfield Books and the second from steve smith on the least well known of the Golden Age tours made by the Gentlemen of Philadelphia

The latest books on cricket in Philadelphia and Northern America by steve smith

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