The Faber Book of Christmas

From the abundant writing on Christmas - historical, literary, popular, mythical - comes this eclectic anthology which includes familiar pieces by Betjeman, Auden, Hardy and Dickens, as well as more obscure extracts. The selection ranges from Milton's "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity" to Wendy Cope's rueful "A Christmas Poem", and from accounts of Christmas Day at the North Pole, and in the trenches in 1914, to Christmas as celebrated by the England cricket team in Australia.

Literature & Fiction

Simon Rae

Essays & Correspondence

Faber and Faber Ltd.

An eye-opening survey of cricket, from the crowd violence and blatant match-rigging of the eighteenth century, down to the twentieth century's glaring abuses of the spirit of the game. Written in the same lively style that won such praise for his W.G. Grace: A Life, Simon Rae's history of cheating will appeal to the cricket fan and general reader alike. Ranging from Thomas White, who notoriously arrived at the crease with a bat the size of the wicket, on through the Bodyline controversy and throwing, sledging, umpire baiting, and the recent disgrace of Hansie Cronje, It's Not Cricket makes us ask whether cricket really ever was the yardstick of all that is true, honest, pure and of good repute.

It's Not Cricket : Skullduggery, Sharp Practice and Downright Cheating in the Noble Game

Sports & Outdoors

Other Team Sports

Gardners Books

<p>Every week for the past three years Simon Rae has written a poem for the Weekend Guardian. As unpredictable as the English weather, his Saturday satires have swung from affectionate parody through rhyming ridicule, to jibes and jests, virulent attacks, merciless sarcasm, and much else.Soft Targets is more than just a book of funny poems and savage squibs: it's a portrait of our present age, the good, the bad and the ugly face of Britain today. Here they all are: the bungling politicians, bumbling liars and hypocrites, warmongers and whoremongers, grey men and lay men... Our heroes and villains, those we love, those we hate and those we love to hate: Prime Ministers past and present, David Gower, Prince Charles and Lester Piggott, British Telecom and Saddam Hussein, the BBC, EEC, IRA and SAS, the Chinese leadership and the England cricket team, and many, many more...</p>

'SOFT TARGETS: POEMS FROM THE WEEKEND ''GUARDIAN'''

Humor & Entertainment

William Rushton

Humor

Bloodaxe Books Ltd.

Great Tew

Poetry

The Redlake Press

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