On cricket Christianity Francis I was inconstant

Francis I was inconstant

Christmas for a farmer takes a different shape to everyone else's

as we turn náire into gáire - embarrassment into laughter - on a journey of renewed pride in our national tongue

complex examination of the crucial philosophical questions of human existence

On cricket Christianity Francis I was inconstantFor this collection of essays, celebrated cricket writer Mike Brearley has gone through pieces he has written over the past four decades, elaborating on many of them, cutting or adding, according to his second thoughts presenting to the reader something that is more holistic, more synoptic, from distance and old age. The portraits range from profiles of individuals (everyone from Jardine and Bradman to Alastair Cook and Ian Chappell) to profiles of