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PaperbackEngels9780571274772
9-12-2010
An autobiography of Alan Ross deals with his postwar life as cricket correspondent, publisher, man of letters and racehorse owner. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780571296040
19-7-2012
'To describe Alan Ross as a polymath does scant justice to the eclecticism of an extraordinary man . Meer
PaperbackEngels9780571296057
19-7-2012
The author - distinguished poet, travel writer, and editor of "London Magazine" - also managed to excel in the role of cricket correspondent for the "Observer", in which capacity he followed England/MCC on tours of Australia, South Africa and the West Indies. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780571296163
15-11-2012
Offers a deft and deceptively airy set of literary wanderings through a part of the Mediterranean - the islands of the south-western coast of Italy - the author had known since being demobilised from the Royal Navy at the end of the Second World War. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780571296316
15-11-2012
'To describe Alan Ross as a polymath does scant justice to the eclecticism of an extraordinary man . Ross was a war hero, poet, bon viveur, travel writer, incorrigible gossip, racehorse owner and brilliant magazine editor. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780571295937
21-6-2012
Ross was a war hero, poet, bon viveur, travel writer, incorrigible gossip, racehorse owner and brilliant magazine editor.' Richard Whitehead, ObserverAustralia 63 offers Ross's account of an Ashes series that pitted the England XI led by Ted Dexter against Richie Benaud's host side. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780571305186
20-6-2013
An account of a summer journey in the early 1950s. It presents the author's descriptions of the landscape and local customs and more (including billiards, 'one of the great Sardinian occupations') that are interspersed with tales of a cast of characters who might have come out of Boccaccio, adding up to a memorable evocation. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780571296149
15-11-2012
Even against a home side boasting Hall and Watson, Worrell, Sobers and Ramadhin, the visitors - fuelled by the bowling of Trueman and Statham and a batting order including Dexter, Barrington and Subba Row - emerged triumphant over five tests. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780571296507
18-4-2013
Ross was a war hero, poet, bon viveur, travel writer, incorrigible gossip, racehorse owner and brilliant magazine editor.' Richard Whitehead, Observer'This is Alan Ross's fourth volume of autobiography (following on from Blindfold Games, Coastwise Lights, and After Pusan). Meer
PaperbackEngels9780571269921
20-5-2010
'To describe Alan Ross as a polymath does scant justice to the eclecticism of an extraordinary man . Meer
PaperbackEngels9780571296422
17-1-2013
Inspired by the author's visit in 1986 to the South Korean coastal city of Pusan, this title gracefully entwines poetry and prose. It opens with a thirty-page prose memoir of the author's visit that is economically and self-effacingly told, deft in its detail and tireless in its curiosity. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780571260409
18-3-2010
'To describe Alan Ross as a polymath does scant justice to the eclecticism of an extraordinary man . Meer
PaperbackEngels9781913513269
20-9-2022
By engaging with the thought processes of its characters, Our Last Year examines human nature and selfhood with an unrelenting gaze, asking us to reconsider our own relationship with our consciousness – how it controls us, and how it might become a source of invention, creativity and connection. Meer
GebondenEngels9780719090899
1-4-2015
The first English language in-depth study of a footsoldier of the seventeenth-century Republic of Letters. Its subject, the German polymath and schoolteacher Christian Daum, left behind one of the largest private archives of any early modern European scholar. Meer
PaperbackEngels9781529002362
18-2-2021
When a couple are killed on an isolated road in North Carolina they leave behind an orphaned son and grieving relatives who must decide between them who will be his caretaker, in a compulsive novel exploring the nature of family. Meer