Rory Cellan-Jones, who as the BBC’s longstanding Technology Correspondent championed the - ultimately successful - campaign to save and restore the historic Bletchley Park site for posterity, praised 100 People You Never Knew Were at Bletchley Park as ‘a great idea for a book’.
The Guardian commends The Nature of Cricket
In the Guardian’s weekly newsletter on cricket, The Spin, Simon Burnton described The Nature of Cricket as ‘excellent’.
Buses magazine reviews Routemasters of the Universe
In the December 2021 issue of Buses magazine Alan Millar reviews Routemasters of the Universe and suggests it might be ‘the sort of book to share your bus interests with “normal” people’…
Wisden Cricket Monthly reviews The Nature of Cricket
Wisden Cricket Monthly devotes the Books section in its October issue to a double-page review of Philip Brown’s volume of cricket photographs and Graham Coster’s The Nature of Cricket. ‘Cricket exists now in such a frenzy of formats, competitions and tournaments that it can blur by,’ writes Jon Hotten, ‘the detail of matches from just a few weeks ago already forgotten. These two books hold it still for a while, and ask us to look in a different way.’
Country Life reviews 100 People You Never Knew Were at Bletchley Park
In the 22 September issue of Country Life Kate Green reviewed 100 People You Never Knew Were at Bletchley Park, writing that ‘Most codebreakers’ families were unaware of their relatives’ crucial work. This book does a great service in revealing the life stories of 100 of them.’
The London Wildlife Trust's newsletter features The Nature of Cricket
Two months running the London Wildlife Trust’s monthly newsletter has run a special offer to its 14,000 members on The Nature of Cricket. The Trust’s Director of Conservation, Mathew Frith, features in the book’s chapter on abandoned cricket grounds.
The Guardian's Spin cricket newsletter features The Nature of Cricket
The end-of-September issue Guardian’s weekly newsletter on cricket, The Spin, was written by Simon Burnton, who featured The Nature of Cricket. Simon and the newsletter actually appear in the book thanks to his assiduous research, in a previous Spin, into the legendary leatherjackets (crane fly larvae) infestation of the wicket at Lord’s in 1935…
The Londonist features The Nature of Cricket
The popular Londonist website has published an attractive feature on The Nature of Cricket: ‘Ten Animals You Wouldn’t Expect to Find on a London Cricket Pitch’.
Country Life finds The Nature of Cricket 'wonderfully illustrated, jovially written and insightful'
In the new edition of Country Life James Fisher reviews The Nature of Cricket and praises ‘a wonderfully illustrated, jovially written and insightful piece of work that shows why the Gentleman’s Game was, and still is, the best sport of them all’.
Yahoo over Cow Corner cricket blog reviews The Nature of Cricket
Hector Capelletti’s absorbing cricket blog Yahoo over Cow Corner has just published a long review of The Nature of Cricket, praising ‘a delightful tome that explores the link between the sport and its relationship with nature’, and opining that ‘After society’s re-discovery of the natural world in COVID-induced lockdowns the book is arguably being released at a timely juncture.’