PG Wodehouse's Mike would open the batting for my XI | Frank Keating
Tue, 08 May 2012 16:07:37 -0700
JL Carr, Shehan Karunatilaka and Joseph O'Neill have written cricket fiction well but PG Wodehouse is its finest servant The wretched weather has at least given cricketers of all levels plenty of time for reading. I fancy many still sheltering in the pavilion might be enthusing over the eloquently unputdownable new novel Chinaman by Shehan Karunatilaka , a floridly epic tale about, among other ...
Shehan Karunatilaka's top 10 cricket books
Fri, 04 May 2012 15:02:27 -0700
From Don Bradman's classic memoir to Imran Khan's musings on Sri Lankan chicanery, 10 first-class literary deliveries It isn't surprising that a sport that goes on for days, often without result, inspires this much writing. There are as many tomes on cricket as there are dot balls in a Test series. Some examine the game's history, wallow in its scandals, or bask in its Zen-like aura. Others ...
N.B. writer wins regional Commonwealth Book Prize
Tue, 22 May 2012 11:27:54 -0700
Riel Nason, a New Brunswick-based writer, is a regional winner of the Commonwealth Book Prize, recognized in the Canada and Europe category for her debut novel, The Town That Drowned.
Zambia: Patchwork Shortlisted for Commonwealth Prize
Sun, 13 May 2012 06:12:33 -0700
[Times of Zambia] ANOTHER milestone for British born Zambian gifted writer, Ellen Aaku as her award winning Africa writer series novel Patchwork has been shortlisted for the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize In an email from her base in the UK, the Zambian born kept finger crossed.