the wild colonial boy
MARK BROWNING REVIEWS PEP: If there is a greater ‘lived life to the full’ Australian cricketer than Cecil Pepper, I have not heard of him… and I include the likes of Keith Miller and Shane Warne. The story of Pep is one of the great Australian cricketing yarns and Ken Piesse has brought him to […]
Australian Cricket Scandals
Steve Smith shamed himself and the game and deserved his 12 month’s suspension, says cricket writer and author KEN PIESSE in his new soon to be published new book Australia’s Cricket Scandals
The best never to play for Australia
Cec Pepper was the quintessential wild colonial boy. He blued with Bradman. He lived in a ‘menage a trois’ and willed half his fortune to a woman he’d just met. Author KEN PIESSE introduces the best cricketer never to play for Australia
A Pictorial History of Australian Test Cricket (coming soon)
I am proud to announce a spring release of my 51st and latest cricket book A Pictorial History of Australian Test Cricket, a 350 page hardback from Echo Publishing and the Five Mile Press. Australia’s Player of the Series in the 2015 Ashes Chris Rogers has supplied this foreword: Playing for Australia is a badge […]