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Wodehouse at the Wicket re-available from Arrow Books!

Murray Hedgcock's book, well known by Wodehouse readers, has just been published in paperback form by Arrow Books of The Random House Group. It was first published in hardback in 1997 by Hutchinson, again of Random House, and has been very collectable ever since.

This will delight many people who know of Wodehouse's life-long passion for cricket, stemming from his days in the first eleven at Dulwich College. Wodehouse also appeared six times at Lords, where his first captain was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle!

Wodehouse at the Wicket is many things: a compendium of Wodehouse's writing on cricket, a fascinating and thorough introductory essay by Murray, also contemporary score sheets and delightful drawings. It describes and reveals many intriguing facts about Wodehouse's cricketing career.

Murray is not only a Wodehouse fan, but an authority on cricket, he is a renowned journalist who has contributed to Wisden and also written a history of the John Wisden London factory.

Wodehouse at the Wicket is priced at £7.99, it is available from Random House's website by clicking here.

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