Connie by Harry Pearson
A masterful biography of one of the biggest personalities in cricketing history, from the author of The Trundlers and Slipless in Settle.
At last Constantine has found a biographer capable of telling his magnificent story - Harry Pearson has written a beguiling work that does full justice to this wonderful sportsman and most honourable of men -- Peter Oborne * Daily Mail *
an excellently researched and sensitively handled account of Constantine's life and impact beyond the gameHe was "a 'Champagne cocktail' cricketer - effervescent but with a kick" and half a century on, his story has lost none of its fizz * ESPN.com *
Harry Pearson is an author with an aversion to uninteresting sentences. Connie is a constantly engaging study -- Giles Smith * The Times *
Cricket fans will cherish . . . and Harry Pearson 's admirable Learie Constantine biography Connie -- Huw Richards * Guardian *
A beautiful book * New European *
an excellently researched and sensitively handled account of Constantine's life and impact beyond the gameHe was "a 'Champagne cocktail' cricketer - effervescent but with a kick" and half a century on, his story has lost none of its fizz * ESPN.com *
Harry Pearson is an author with an aversion to uninteresting sentences. Connie is a constantly engaging study -- Giles Smith * The Times *
Cricket fans will cherish . . . and Harry Pearson 's admirable Learie Constantine biography Connie -- Huw Richards * Guardian *
A beautiful book * New European *
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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| ISBN 13 | 9780349140391 |
| ISBN 10 | 0349140391 |
| Title | Connie |
| Author | Harry Pearson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2018-07-05 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Prizes | Long-listed for William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2017 (UK), Long-listed for Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award 2018 (UK) |
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