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One Long and Beautiful Summer - A Short Elegy for Red-Ball Cricket by Duncan Hamilton
Category: Biography
*A MULTIPLE AWARD-WINNING SPORTS WRITER* 'Hamilton's book is a marvel . . . I'm not sure he could write a dull sentence if he tried' Spectator One of Duncan Hamilton's favourite writers on cricket, Edmund Blunden, wrote how he felt going to watch a game: 'You arrive early, earlier even than you meant ...Show more
One Long and Beautiful Summer - An Elegy for the Red Ball Game (HB) by Duncan Hamilton
Category: Sports and Hobbies
*A MULTIPLE AWARD-WINNING SPORTS WRITER* 'Hamilton's book is a marvel . . . I'm not sure he could write a dull sentence if he tried' Spectator One of Duncan Hamilton's favourite writers on cricket, Edmund Blunden, wrote how he felt going to watch a game: 'You arrive early, earlier even than you meant ...Show more
Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years With Brian Clough by Duncan Hamilton
Category: Sport
"Look Duncan, you're a journalist. One day you'll write a book about this club. Or, more to the point, about me. So you may as well know what I'm thinking and save it up for later when it won't do any harm to anyone."Duncan Hamilton was there through all the madness, the success, the failures, the fall- ...Show more
Servant of the Crown (Dragon Slayer #3) by Duncan M. Hamilton
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: The\Dragonslayer Ser.
The Exciting Conclusion to the Dragonslayer Trilogy Long laid plans finally bear fruit, but will it prove as sweet as hoped for? With the king on his deathbed, the power Amaury has sought for so long is finally in his grasp. As opposition gathers from unexpected places, dragonkind fights for survival ...Show more
The Great Romantic - Cricket and the Golden Age of Neville Cardus by Duncan Hamilton
Category: Sports and Hobbies
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE 2019 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR Duncan Hamilton is already a multiple award-winning sports writer, but it is hard to imagine he will write a better book than this superb, elegiac portrait of the sociable, feted, but ultimately unknowable, man who ...Show more
The Great Romantic - Cricket and the Golden Age of Neville Cardus by Duncan Hamilton
Category: Sports and Hobbies
Neville Cardus described how one majestic stroke-maker 'made music' and 'spread beauty' with his bat. Between two world wars, he became the laureate of cricket by doing the same with words. In The Great Romantic, award-winning author Duncan Hamilton demonstrates how Cardus changed sports journalism for ...Show more
The Last Summer by HAMILTON, DUNCAN
Category: Sports and Hobbies
Combining reportage, anecdote, biography, history and personal recollection, The Last Summer is an honest and passionate reflection on cricket's past, present and future. A memorable and acutely observed portrait of one summer of cricket from an award-winning sports writer who has watched - and loved - ...Show more
The unreliable life of Harry the Valet by Duncan Hamilton
Category: True Crime
Harry the Valet began his criminal career out of grief, but became Europe’s most notorious jewel thief out of love. The story of a real-life Raffles – a man who wore bespoke suits and handmade shoes; who used a dozen pseudonyms to dust over his tracks; who belonged to three smart London clubs and lived ...Show more