Witty, insightful, poignant and thought-provoking, for men of a certain age Marcus Berkmann's book provides a useful compass with which to navigate those twilight years, with humour rather than resignation, grace rather than grumpiness. Should be compulsory reading for all men with the potential to ...
Truely supberb book, up there with all his other books. Very funny and profound in places.
It is not a full history of the Ashes, but a recollection of the Ashes series that Berkmann remembers from the early seventies. Quite depressing in parts when you realise just how dreadful we were as a cricket team. That and the partisan nature of the selectors must have driven people to drink. I di...
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