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Down But Not Out
August 26, 2014
Peter Oborne recounts cricket’s progress in Pakistan with the meticulousness and dedication such a rich and unlikely story deserves
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In Walton’s Footsteps
December 18, 2013
The second-most frequently reprinted book in the English language is a 350-year-old fishing manual set in a bucolic Tottenham. Haringey never looked so good
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Jocks Away
December 17, 2012
Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy’s Jewish Jocks features some real life He-Menschen, but also a host of anti-jocks: tennis’s first transexual player and the
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Olympian Angst
August 29, 2012
‘Germans longed for Olympic medals as validation, but were surprised at how London rose to the occasion’
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Bowled Over
April 24, 2012
From Havana to Kigali, cricket’s good-news stories can be found in the least likely places In 1895, Winston Churchill, then a journalist covering the
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Real Men Don’t Use Brylcreem
April 24, 2012
Public displays of emotion, sequins, ear studs and nancy boy’s clothes: where have all the men’s men gone? You may remember a few years