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Who was Dolly Parton?
Part of what I continue to be interested in about Dolly is the construction of personae, and White Limozeen was in this place where her ability to be all things to all people kind of broke down – and…
01 Sept 2026
Why 1864 was the year that changed cricket
It was an incredible twelve months. The first full-strength England team toured Australia, overarm bowling was legalised, W. G. Grace arrived on the stage, an English cricket board was proposed, Lord’…
The Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook – 120 years old
The Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook 2027 is the 120th edition of one of UK publishing’s most consistently reliable reference guides. First published in 1906 as a ‘commercial directory for professiona…
27 July 2026
Is The Hundred drawing more children into cricket?
On Sunday, we took our ten-year-old to Trent Bridge to see his first Test. Having spent much of the past six months worrying whether the last match of the New Zealand series would reach a fourth day,…
02 July 2026
The Cricketers of the Year who never played Test cricket
One of the guests at the launch of the latest Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack was Phil Bainbridge. Back in 1985, he had enjoyed a spectacular summer for Gloucestershire, hitting 1,644 runs at 56 (as well…
10 June 2026
The series that marked the dawn of Bazball
When the New Zealand Test team last visited the UK, Brendon McCullum’s tenure as England head coach had just started. Four years on, the tourists return at another pivotal moment for the Bazball ideol…
Discover your These Shattered Spires discipline!
You awake in the decaying Fourspires Castle. The Slaughter fast approaches, and you're facing down the prospect of having to work with three fellow familiars from rival disciplines. Joy.
20 Mar 2026
Ursula Phillips on translating Ice by Jacek Dukaj
My first encounter with Ice came shortly after it was published (December 2007). I bought it on a visit to Poland in the spring of 2008 after reading an intriguing review in a leading newspaper. Even…
27 Feb 2026
Inside the lost chapel of Westminster
In one of the creepiest of M.R. James’s ghost stories, an academic with a taste for architecture acquires a mysterious pair of binoculars which allow him to see a dissolved medieval abbey revealed in…
02 Dec 2025
Charles Skinner author Q&A
I did a very poor job as CEO in 2007 and started writing the book (then entitled ‘From Hero to Zero’) as a form of catharsis and to reflect on my many mistakes.I then picked up on the 25k words I had…
Your guide to feasting and decorations this Christmas
In those last few weeks before Christmas, I like to wake up before everyone else in the house. I creep out of bed while it’s still dark, slip my feet into warm slippers, shuffle quietly into the kitch…
The Book of Sea Monsters: Leviathans of Literature
Monsters are human creations. They are the product of our imaginations, recurring and reforming across time and space. The word monster comes from the Latin monstrare, ‘to show’ – monsters show what i…
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