Chalke, Stephen – Brian Close, One Hell of a Life
The ultimate biography
$60.00
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Sub titled: Daring, Defiant and Daft
Hardback with dw. Recommended. See reviews
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1 review for Chalke, Stephen – Brian Close, One Hell of a Life
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Praise for One Hell of a Life
A fascinating and highly relevant biography.
Scyld Berry, The Telegraph
Chalke has done justice to a magnificently idiosyncratic cricketer. There are heaps of cracking anecdotes. I have not enjoyed a cricket book so much in years.
Matthew Engel, New Statesman
Chalke is assiduous in his use of both first- and second-hand sources, assembling the narrative with care and dropping in the gold where it will shine brightest.
Jon Hotten, Wisden Cricket Monthly
While I rarely read cricket books, anything [Stephen Chalke] pens is always worthwhile.
Mike Selvey, The Cricketer
I was surprised to find so many fresh [stories], some of them wonderful. Indeed one of the remarkable things about the book is that it has a general feeling of freshness, despite the familiarity of so much of the tale … Most necessary of all given the highs and lows of Close’s life, and the strong views he and others have had about its events, it is a book of admirable balance [and] careful and shrewd analysis… overall it is hard to recommend this volume highly enough.
Ned Holt, newsletter of the Yorkshire CCC Southern Group
Rather than consult a thesaurus for new superlatives I will simply give it the five stars it undoubtedly merits … My knee-jerk reaction is that One Hell of a Life really is his best book yet.
Martin Chandler, CricketWeb
There can never, surely, have been a more dramatic, more consistently turbulent, altogether more interesting life in cricket than that of Brian Close. Nor is anyone better equipped to chronicle that life than Stephen Chalke. [This] new book is surely definitive.
Charles Barr, The Cricket Statistician (journal of the ACS)
Beautifully written, pacy and well-structured.
Chris Waters, The Yorkshire Post
What more is there to be said about former Yorkshire and England captain Brian Close, one of the most controversial figures in post- war English cricket? After all, three books have been written about that most talented of all-round sportsmen before. The answer, in a beautifully- crafted and well-written book, is plenty.
Bill Marshall, Bradford Telegraph & Argus