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- Little, Brown Audio
- Abacus
Prose: non-fiction, Sports & outdoor recreation, Cricket
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Little, Brown Audio
- Paperback May 29, 2012 | 9780349000107 | RRP $26.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Sep 8, 2011 | 9781405510509 | RRP $30.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Jul 8, 2010 | 9780748115211 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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The brilliant book from Harry Pearson, the winner of the 2011 MCC Cricket Book of the Year - out now in paperback.
SLIPLESS IN SETTLE is a sentimental journey around club cricket in the north of England, a world far removed from the cliched lengthening-shadows-on-the-village-green image of the summer game. This is hardcore cricket played in former pit villages and mill towns. Winner of the 2011 MCC Cricket Book of the Year, it is about the little clubs that have, down the years, produced some of the greatest players Britain has ever seen and at one time spent a fortune on importing the biggest names in the international game to boost their battle for local supremacy.
SLIPLESS IN SETTLE is a warm, affectionate and outrageously funny sporting odyssey in which Andrew Flintoff and Learie Constantine rub shoulders with Asbo-tag-wearing all-rounders, there's hot-pot pie and mushy peas at the tea bar, two types of mild in the clubhouse and a batsman is banned for a month for wearing a fireman's helmet when going out to face Joel Garner
Harry Pearson
Harry Pearson was born and brought up on the edge of Teesside. He is the author of eight works of non-fiction. The Far Corner - A Mazy Dribble through North-East Football, was runner-up for the William Hill Prize and has been named as one of the Fifty Greatest Sports Books of All Time by both the Observer and The Times. He wrote a weekly sports column in the Guardian from 1996 to 2012, and won the 2011 MCC/Cricket Society Prize for his book about Northern club cricket, Slipless in Settle. He lives in Northumberland.
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