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A warm and witty insight into the folk sports of Britain that were left behind, but still survive

The remarkable story of three Yorkshire cricketing legends who helped transform the county

Twenty-five years on from his classic football book The Far Corner, Harry Pearson returns to the north-east to find out what has changed since then

Cycling is wildly popular all over Belgium, but in the northern, Dutch-speaking half of the country it is part of the psyche. Tiny Flanders boasts a population of just 6 million, yet this small corner of northwest Europe has produced eight winners of the Tour de France, five times as many professional riders as Italy or Spain. Blending reportage, interviews, observation, biography, and history, and written with affectionate humor by a committed Belgophile, The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman tells the story of Flanders' neurotic love affair with bike racing, from tough early heroes such as Jules Vanhevel--wounded by mortar fire in World War I and leading the world championship road race until he collided with a cow--to latter-day ironmen such as Tom Boonen, three-times winner of the Tour of Flanders and owner of a pet donkey named Kamiel.

A masterful biography of one of the biggest personalities in cricketing history, from the author of The Trundlers and Slipless in Settle.

Die Kunst des Kanadiers Rodney Graham mag leichtfüßig daherkommen, tatsächlich verbirgt sich dahinter aber eine außerordentliche inhaltliche und mediale Vielschichtigkeit. So finden sich in seinen Fotografien, Objekten, Gemälden, Filmen, Texten und Musikstücken Verweise auf Philosophie und Literatur, Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte, die von Erasmus von Rotterdam über Edgar Allan Poe bis zu Sigmund Freud, Richard Wagner und Kurt Cobain reichen. Während Graham in seinem Frühwerk die Annäherung an seine Materialquellen noch mit großer konzeptueller Strenge vollzieht, sind die späteren Arbeiten in ihrer spielerischen Ambivalenz zwischen wissenschaftlicher Faktizität und fantasievoller Fiktion vor allem von großem, intelligentem Humor geprägt. In der Sammlung Goetz befinden sich Arbeiten aus allen Schaffensphasen und Gattungen. Diese Publikation ermöglicht einen profunden Einblick in das umfassende künstlerische Schaffen dieses Allrounders aus den letzten 40 Jahren und lädt zur Entdeckungsreise ein. Ausstellung: Sammlung Goetz, München 28.11.2015–23.4.2016

Affectionate, witty and often hilarious, award-winning author Harry Pearson celebrates medium-paced 'trundlers'; cricket's most overlooked men.

The brilliant book from Harry Pearson, the winner of the 2011 MCC Cricket Book of the Year - out now in paperback.

When Grandmama Fell off the Boat is an anthology of the humorous verse of Harry Graham, one of the early 20th century's wittiest writers. Published in England and America, he was credited with introducing `sick' verse. His obituary in The Times compared him to Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and W. S. Gilbert, an epitaph that has stood the test of time.