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CrickiLeaks: The Secret Ashes Diaries
Alan Tyers
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Description for CrickiLeaks: The Secret Ashes Diaries
Hardcover. EXPOSED! CrickiLeaks lifts the lid on sport's fiercest rivalry, revealing the innermost thoughts of the greatest cricketers from Ashes history. It features 40 first-person diaries, each lampooning a well-known player or cricketing figure and presented as an imagined extract from their journal. Num Pages: 128 pages, B&W cartoon illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1MBF; WH; WSB; WSJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 116 x 22. Weight in Grams: 222. Fine clean copy in fine dust wrapper
Cricket's greatest legends. Sport's fiercest rivalry. Wisden's fakest diaries.
CrickiLeaks charges headlong onto the players' balcony and imagines 40 cricketing diaries of rare wit and invention, along with the illustrated book covers they might have inspired.
Featuring spoof journal entries drawn from throughout Ashes history, CrickiLeaks reveals for the first time the innermost thoughts of the greatest cricketers of the last 129 years. And Mitchell Johnson.
CrickiLeaks includes imagined diaries from players on the most recent tour (Andrew Strauss, Ricky Ponting), diaries from the all-time greats (Shane Warne, Freddie Flintoff, Sir Ian Botham, Geoffrey Boycott, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408152409
SKU
KCW0003819
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-4
About Alan Tyers
Alan Tyers has a monthly column in The Wisden Cricketer magazine and writes weekly spoof diaries on thewisdencricketer.com. Beach is an illustrator and cartoonist who regularly contributes to The Wisden Cricketer magazine.
Reviews for CrickiLeaks: The Secret Ashes Diaries
"Beautifully illustrated and hilarious"
Sport Magazine
"Devour in one go or relish in the bathroom: the new one from Tyers and Beach is compelling either way"
ESPN Cricinfo (May 2011)
"It's the sort of book that can easily be devoured in one sitting but lends itself to endless revisiting - on the khazi, inevitably, because it's ... Read more
Sport Magazine
"Devour in one go or relish in the bathroom: the new one from Tyers and Beach is compelling either way"
ESPN Cricinfo (May 2011)
"It's the sort of book that can easily be devoured in one sitting but lends itself to endless revisiting - on the khazi, inevitably, because it's ... Read more