Penguins Stopped Play

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  Penguins Stopped Play by Harry Thompson 242pp, John Murray, £12.99 There are thousands of amateur cricket teams in Britain, and not many have a book written about them. Still fewer have two or three, but this is what has happened to the Captain Scott ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• Penguins Stopped Play, by Harry Thompson

  Home Contact us Posts Comments A few years ago I read Harry Thompson‘s splendid novel This Thing of Darkness, an historical epic that followed the life and career of Charles Darwin, his voyages on the Beagle and his relationship with its captain, Rob ... (read full critics)

  bookgeeks published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

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  Penguins stopped play, I stopped reading...

  This book appealed to me because it's about a cricket team that has played all over the world but is definitely "second best". Formed during the university days of the author by boys not elected to the regular university cricket team, its aim is more to have fun than to win the game.
  Unfortunat ... (continue)

  This book appealed to me because it's about a cricket team that has played all over the world but is definitely "second best". Formed during the university days of the author by boys not elected to the regular university cricket team, its aim is more to have fun than to win the game.
  Unfortunately, it is not at all funny if you don't know anything about cricket and its rules (like me). So in spite of the Monty Pythonesque appeal, I abandoned the book after 100 pages.

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• If you are a cricket follower, you'd love this book. It makes you laugh out loud.

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• English Books
• Paperback 320 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0719563461
• ISBN-13: 9780719563461
• Publisher: John Murray
• Pub date: Apr 05, 2007
• Also available as: Hardcover and eBook

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