The cricket world's bestselling pocket annual. The indispensable guide to the season.The Playfair Cricket Annual 2017 includes coverage of the 2016 season, including the Specsavers County Championship, Royal London One-Day Cup and the NatWest T20 Blast. It also contains: a detailed register of all current first-class county players and umpires; county records and 2016 first-class averages; current county players' first-class and List A limited-overs career records; Test ma...

The world's bestselling cricket annual.The indispensable pocket guide to the cricket season.The 74th edition of the Playfair Cricket Annual is packed with all the information you need to follow the cricket season in 2021, as well as a review of events during the previous Covid-impacted twelve months.India are the main attraction this coming season, and here you'll find compr...

The indispensable pocket guide to the cricket season.The 77th edition of the Playfair Cricket Annual is packed with all the information you need to follow the cricket season in 2024, as well as a review of events during the previous twelve months.Pakistan, West Indies, Sri Lanka and Australia will all be touring England this coming summer, and here you'll find comprehensive Test match and limited-overs records and ...

The cricket world's bestselling pocket annual. The indispensable guide to the season.The Playfair Cricket Annual 2015 includes coverage of the 2014 season, including the LV= County Championship, Royal London One-Day Cup and the NatWest T20 Blast. It also contains: a detailed register of all current first-class county players and umpires, including career bests in international Twenty20 matches; county records and 2014 first-class averages; current county players' first-class and Li...

The 73rd edition of the Playfair Cricket Annual is packed with all the information you need to follow the cricket season in 2020.West Indies and Pakistan are the visitors this coming season, and here you'll find comprehensive Test match and limited-overs records and career records to help you follow the action,County cricket is covered in unrivalled depth, with biographies ...

Nature’s ability to satisfy deep human needs is familiar to anyone who has hiked up a mountain, canoed a river, or hung a bird feeder outside the kitchen window. In Story Line, his groundbreaking work of narrative ecocriticism, Ian Marshall explores how natural surroundings inspired works of literature set along the Appalachian Trail. In his new work, Peak Experiences, Marshall sets out on a far more personal and at the same time far-reaching journey, to discover how our modern estrangemen...

The UK's bestselling cricket annual returns - it's the indispensable pocket guide to the summer.The 78th edition of the Playfair Cricket Annual is packed with all the information you need to follow the cricket season in 2025, as well as a review of events during the previous twelve months.India, South Africa, West Indies and Zimbabwe will all be touring England this coming summer, and here you'll find comprehensive Test match and l...

The world's bestselling cricket annual.The indispensable pocket guide to the cricket season.The 75th edition of the Playfair Cricket Annual is packed with all the information you need to follow the cricket season in 2022, as well as a review of events during the previous Covid-impacted twelve months.India are the main attraction this coming season, and here you'll find compr...

In this intriguing literary experiment, Ian Marshall presents a collection of nearly three hundred haiku that he extracted from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden and documents the underlying similarities between Thoreau's prose and the art of haiku.Although Thoreau would never have encountered the Japanese haiku tradition, the way in which the most important ideas in Walden find expression in the most haikulike language suggests that Thoreau at Walden Pond and the haiku master ...

The 80th edition of the UK's bestselling cricket annual!Celebrate 80 years of the Playfair Cricket Annual with the 2027 edition, packed with all the information you need to follow the cricket season in 2027, as well as a review of events during the previous twelve months.County cricket is covered in unrivalled depth, with biographies of all players registered to the counties at the start of the season, and you'll find full coverage of last summer's...

The UK's bestselling cricket annual returns.The 79th edition of the Playfair Cricket Annual is packed with all the information you need to follow the cricket season in 2026, as well as a review of events during the previous twelve months.We've had an exciting few months of all-things-cricket with the Ashes, the T20 World Cup, the Hundred auction and now the IPL and the County cricket season. As we look forward to a summer of more domestic and inter...

The 65th edition of the PLAYFAIR CRICKET ANNUAL reviews England's two triumphant 2011 home Test series against Sri Lanka and India, as well as their autumn/winter matches against India and Pakistan. The book is packed with all the essential information required to follow events on the cricket field, with unrivalled up-to-the-minute statistical detail on all first-class players registered in the UK at the time of press. There are fixture lists for the coming season, including 2nd XI and Min...