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Below is a list of the current books available – to learn more about each book please click on the book title to be taken to the appropriate page.

Several of our books are also available as Limited Editions. Click here for a full list and further details.

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The current list of available titles are below:-

NEW
Christianity at the Crease
This is the final book written by Eric Midwinter before his death in August 2025. It examines the long entanglement of cricket and the church, which sometimes frowned upon the sport, and sometimes found it a useful tool. Click here for more information

The Cricketing Dickens – Charles Dickens, one of the most celebrated of Englishmen, was at the peak of his authorial game just as the game of cricket was emerging as the salient national sport. Eric Midwinter has woven a compound of fictional citation and factual involvement of Dickens in cricket that makes for a fascinating profile of this unusual aspect of the great author's life. Click here for more information

A Little Book of Cardus Cartoons – Neville Cardus was an inveterate doodler and caricaturist. You will be surprised at how many cartoons he actually produced. Bob Hilton has done a magnificent job in compiling our most unusual Cardus book. Click here for more information

SPECIAL OFFER
Buy 'The Cricket Dickens' & 'A Little Book of Cardus Cartoons' for £20.00. An option to buy for £20 can be found at the foot of the page of either title.

  • Olympic Cricket, the story so far – With cricket due to return as an Olympic sport in 2028, Keith Gregson tells the story of how an English side became Olympic Cricket Champions and retains that title to this very day. Click here for more information
  • Peter Eckersley, the Flying Cricketer – A biography of a forgotten Lancashire cricketer who captained the county to the County Championship title in 1930 and 1934 and packed an awful lot into his relatively short life. Click here for more information

GENERAL INTEREST TITLES

  • Lords of Mischief: Clown Cricket and Dan Leno by Eric Midwinter More Info
  • Murder On The Ribblehead Viaduct by Malcolm Lorimer More Info
  • The Sermon That Led To Murder by Malcolm Lorimer More Info
  • Both Legs Down One Knicker-The Confessions Of A Sports Cartoonist by Bob Bond More Info
  • An Almighty Innings by Andrew Scott More Info
  • A Great Day for England – the 1900 Olympics victory More Info
  • Sherlock Holmes & the birth of the Ashes More Info

CHESHIRE CRICKET

  • Pavilions In Splendour – the cricket pavilions and grounds of Cheshire by Geoff Wellsteed More Info

LANCASHIRE CRICKET & CRICKETERS

  • Peter Eckersley – The Flying Cricketer More Info
  • Lancashire Hotch-Potch by Bob Bond More Info
  • O My Hornby and Barlow Long Ago More Info
  • Ashes Tests at Old Trafford More Info
  • 1000 Wins Not Enough! Lancashire's thrilling quest for the 2021 County Championship title More info
  • Diary of a Cricket Correspondent – Brian Bearshaw's notes on Lancashire's 1964 & 1965 seasons More info
  • Born In Bolton by Geoff Ogden More Info
  • Farokh-The Cricketing Cavalier: The Authorised Biography of Farokh Engineer More Info
  • Cardus Undimmed-The Last Decade More Info
  • Jack Bond-Lancashire Lad, Lancashire Leader by Douglas Miller More Info
  • Lancashire Legends No.2: Bob Barber-the Professional Amateur by Colin Shindler More Info
  • Boulder Rolling by Tom Smith More Info
  • Champions...The inside story of Lancashire's 2011 County Championship title winning season More Info
  • Sun, Snow & Strike! by Colin Evans More Info

SIR NEVILLE CARDUS

  • For a complete list of all our books on Sir Neville Cardus, please click here