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 as he chronicles its rise”
Michael Morpurgo
“The perfect book to take with you and your deckchair to a village cricket match this summer.”
Alexander Armstrong
“A delightful and revealing jaunt into the world of some of my favourite writers.”
Sherlock Holmes Journal
“as well as being well researched and written, Writers in Whites is very entertaining”
Literary Review
“engaging and well-researched”
Cricketweb
“Fascinating… an excellent subject… The strength of Writers in Whites is the depth of the research that has gone into it.”
Derbyshire Cricket
“Thoroughly enjoyable… It is thoroughly engaging from cover to cover and one can only marvel at the depth of research… This is likely to be one of the books of the year”
Andrew Roberts Cricket Statistics
“Ollie Randall has researched his subject meticulously… Very well done to Ollie on this fascinating and enjoyable book.”
Wisden Cricket Monthly
“Writers In Whites is a vivid, intriguing cultural history with a wide sweep and, like many of its stars, should appeal beyond a cricket readership.”
Du Maurier Society
“An engaging and pleasing read, even if you know very little about cricket or are typically not interested in the sport! There are plenty of stories and surprising bookish connections to discover that will keep any literary fan reading and introduce an underappreciated part of literary history.”
Rajesh Kumar, Cricket Statistician
“A fascinating book… Thoroughly researched and immensely readable.”
The Tablet
“What better reading for summer than Ollie Randall’s Writers in Whites… With skilful sleuthing, a sense of period values and dashes of humour and compassion, Randall fields an initially unlikely team of distinguished literati… A forgotten moment in English cultural history brought exuberantly to life.”
Needless to say, I’m delighted with these reviews. If they pique your interest, Writers in Whites is available for order now.
