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A Tale of Ten Wickets

A Tale of Ten Wickets

by RichardHeller (Author)

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    Paperback 2007

    $10.15
Synopsis

It is very hard not to find amusement in Richard Heller's A Tale of Ten Wickets - and sometimes a deeper emotion. A fictional but somewhat familiar village, Upton Chesney, prepares with relish for its annual visit from the Frenetics, an aptly named London-based wandering side. Through the visiting scorer (a sort of narrator in the style of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales), and a lost travel writer, the reader meets a rich gallery of characters, each with a unique story.Written with gentle irreverence and a nice eye for the eccentric, the book is a delightful read. As the match reaches its nail-biting (of course) conclusion, the result, in the true tradition of the game, becomes less important than the real ending. On-going reviews in the national and cricketing press.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 160
 Edition: 1st Edition
 Publisher: Oval Publishing
Published: 30 Sep 2007
ISBN 10: 0952341905
ISBN 13: 9780952341901

Media Reviews
This delightful tome resonates with barely suppressed English passion for the sport of flannelled fools. He manages to cram the outlines of ten novels into a paperback about one village game. Peter Mackay - The Daily Mail Amateurs of all ages will feel at home in the bucolic atmosphere on pitch and in pavilion. Duff Hart-Davis - The Mail on Sunday Some of the stories are beauties, vignettes of triumph and disaster in which the characters are illuminated with real sharpness. The Daily Telegraph
Author Bio
Richard Heller plays regularly for a cricket team like the Frenetics, which he founded himself in order to get a bowl. When not playing cricket he is journalist and speechwriter - a long-serving columnist for the Mail On Sunday and later the Times and a contributor to many other publications including to the Evening Standard, the Sunday Express and the Yorkshire Post. He has also been a runner up BBC TV's Mastermind. His latest book Membear Of Parliament (the delightful story of the first teddy bear to become an MP) is also available from Vine House.