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      Richie Benaud’s Blue Suede Shoes

      David Kynaston, Harry Ricketts

      WINNER OF THE CRICKET WRITERS' CLUB DEREK HODGSON BOOK OF THE YEAR LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2024 'This entertaining book is gripping reading…

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      First Things

      Harry Ricketts

      First memory. First going hitchhiking. First seeing my father angry. First shotgun. First poem.

      In First Things, Harry Ricketts chronicles his early life through the lens of 'firsts': those moments…

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      Selected Poems: Harry Ricketts

      Harry Ricketts

      Harry Ricketts has written and edited more than thirty books, but it is his poetry that has been the most constant, and the most personal in tone. In Selected Poems…

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      Half Dark

      Harry Ricketts

      In his new collection, Harry Ricketts addresses the people and places that fill a life and the gaps they leave behind. These are poems of friendship, romance, youth, and moments…

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      Rudyard Kipling

      Harry Ricketts

      This absorbing, widely praised biography brings a fresh and sympathetic eye to the career of the prolific writer whose popular Jungle Books and collections of poems like Barracks Room Ballads…

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      How to Catch a Cricket Match: Ginger Series Volume 9

      Harry Ricketts

      Rudyard Kipling called cricketers ‘flannelled fools’. Groucho Marx asked halfway through a cricket match when it would start, and Alfred Hitchcock put two cricket fans into a thriller as comic…

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      Awa Book Of New Zealand Sports Writing, The

      Harry Ricketts

      In this sweeping and often surprising anthology, Harry Ricketts casts the net over both much-loved works, such as Lloyd Jones’s The Book of Fame on rugby, and long-lost treasures such…

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      Strange Meetings: The Lives of the Poets of the Great War

      Harry Ricketts

      Provides an account of War Poets of 1914-1918, written through a series of actual encounters, or near-encounters, from Siegfried Sassoon’s first, blushing meeting with Rupert Brooke over kidneys and bacon…

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      Just Then

      Harry Ricketts

      In this collection, renowned writer and poet Harry Ricketts finds room for three songs written in Hong Kong in 1975 and a 1979 poem about a war poet. Other poems…

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      The Unforgiving Minute: A Life of Rudyard Kipling

      Harry Ricketts

      The stories of Rudyard Kipling are read all over the world, by people of all ages, yet no biography has fully explored the complex link between his fascinating life and…

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      Winter Eyes

      Harry Ricketts

      Poetry as comfort, poetry as confrontation. These are poems of friendship, of love’s stranglehold, of the streets and buildings where history played out. Elegiac and bittersweet, Winter Eyes is Harry…

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