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‘Maddening, yet transfixing’ – DAVID FRITH

CRICKET’S LEADING historian David Frith has glowingly endorsed my latest book, The Bull, David Warner, Daring to be Different: Abrasive; explosive; hero; villain. Anyone who has seen Dave Warner in action will have no doubt that he is an almost unique stirrer.

Hundreds of footy books

Have just bought a big library which includes 100s of AFL books from the ’60s onwards. I will list them in time but if you wanted to ask me about a particular book, do email me at kenpiesse@ozemail.com.au  

A dishonourable discharge

KEN PIESSE reviews Tim Paine’s autobiography The Price Paid So angry and broken was Tim Paine after exiting the Australian Test captaincy in disgrace, that he pondered taking his own life. His Australian and Tasmanian kitbags were binned: pads, bats, gloves, helmets, everything.

DU PLESSIS TARGETS WARNER

David Warner’s polarising onfield behavior is central in Faf du Plessis’s just released autobiography ‘Faf Through Fire’. Describing Warner as his fiercest rival, he said the sledging he and others received from Warner was totally against the spirit of the game and triggered a dramatic reaction from the South Africans in the tersest Test series […]