Ollie Randall, writing and cartoons
Hello! Writers in Whites has now been published for exactly a month – so it seems like a good moment to run through the early book reviews. And I’m pretty thrilled with them so far! London Review of Books “Superb… Randall charts the decline of cricket as a cultural influence with just as much brilliance and assiduity…
Two weeks ago, my debut book, Writers in Whites, was published. It’s been an enormously exciting time for me, and the outcome of years of work. The book’s full title is Writers in Whites: How a group of literary cricketers changed English culture. It’s a nonfiction book about a coterie of writers who played cricket together for three generations, from JM…
I am thrilled to share the news that, in mid-May, my debut book is due to be published. It’s called Writers in Whites: How a group of literary cricketers changed English culture. Based on my three years of PhD research, it’s a nonfiction book about a network of London-based writers who played cricket together for…
This morning I received an immensely pleasing email: my PhD examiners have ratified my minor corrections to my thesis, and they’ve submitted the final paperwork. I won’t get formally notified about it for another few weeks, and I won’t graduate until the summer, but there is no more work for me to do. I’ve officially…
A friend commissioned me to draw him and his whole family! So here is the set of five framed portraits I put together for him: These five pictures are now hanging in a line beside a staircase in his parents’ house. I always enjoy drawing a set of sketches: I like having several pictures that…