Hindustan Times
Gideon Haigh is one of the finest cricket writers at work today. His latest book, On Warne, is not a biography of arguably the greatest leg spin bowler of all time, it is an extended meditation on the magic and charisma of Shane Warne, the making and sustaining of his legend. Read more
(2 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, February 11, 2013 at 7:11 pm
Filed under Books, Page Turner · Tagged Andre Agassi, Gideon Haigh, hindustan times, John McEnroe, news, Shane Warne, Soumya Bhattacharya, warne
One can’t spend the last week of the year without making at least one ‘best of’ list. This list isn’t, by my reckoning, a list of the best books of 2011. Rather, it offers a compendium of some of the books I have enjoyed and admired this year. Read more
(3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, December 26, 2011 at 6:40 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged 2011, A Tragic Honesty, Alan Hollinghurst, Aravind Adiga, BCCI, Blake Bailey, books of 2011, David Peace, Ernest Hemingway, First Forty Nine Stories, Gideon Haigh, hindustantimes, Jeffrey Eugenides, Julian Barnes, lalit modi, Page Turner, Siddhartha Deb, Soumya Bhattacharya, The Beautiful and the Damned, The Damned United, The Girl with the Pearl Earring, The Last Man in Tower, The Marriage Plot, The Sense of an Ending, The Sphere of Influence, The Stranger's Child, Tracy Chevalier
Peter Roebuck had studied law at Cambridge University, and he brought to his cricket writing the objectivity and incisiveness of a lawyer examining evidence. His style, like the straw hat he wore so often, could only have been his. Read more
(4 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, November 14, 2011 at 7:43 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged All That You Can’t Leave Behind, CLR James, columnist, Gideon Haigh, Greg Baum, hindustan times, Malcolm Knox, Matthew Engel, news, Page Turner, Peter Roebuck, Ricky Ponting, Soumya Bhattacharya, Sydney Test
As India’s miserable tour of England draws towards a close, here comes a book of cricket writing that no India fan should do without. Read more
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, September 12, 2011 at 6:18 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged cricket, England, Gideon Haigh, hindustan times, India, International Cricket Council, IPL, lalit modi, news, Page Turner, Ricky Ponting, Sachin Tendulkar, Shane Warne, Soumya Bhattacharya, test matches, West Indies, World Cup
