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Item Details
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AMAZING GRACE
THE MAN WHO WAS W.G. |
| By: |
Richard Tomlinson |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£25.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1408705176 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781408705179 |
| Publisher: |
LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP |
| Pub. date: |
3 September, 2015 |
| Pages: |
432 |
| Description: |
The definitive biography of W.G. Grace, the record-breaking cricketer who was also the most recognisable public figure in Victorian Britain. |
| Synopsis: |
On a sunny afternoon in May 1868, nineteen-year-old Gilbert Grace stood in a Wiltshire field, wondering why he was playing cricket against the Great Western Railway Club. A batting genius, 'W. G.' should have been starring at Lord's in the grand opening match of the season. But MCC did not want to elect this humble son of a provincial doctor. W. G's career was faltering before it had barely begun.Grace finally forced his way into MCC and over the next three decades, millions came to watch him - not just at Lord's, but across the British Empire and beyond. Only W. G. could boast a fan base that stretched from an American Civil War general and the Prince of Wales's mistress to the children who fingered his coat-tails as he walked down the street, just to say 'I touched him'.The public never knew the darker story behind W. G.'s triumphal progress. Accused of avarice, W. G. was married to the daughter of a bankrupt. Disparaged as a simpleton, his subversive mind recast how to play sport - thrillingly hard, pushing the rules, beating his opponents his own way.In Amazing Grace, Richard Tomlinson unearths a life lived so far ahead of his times that W. G. is still misunderstood today. For the first time, Tomlinson delves into long-buried archives in England and Australia to reveal the real W. G: a self-made, self-destructive genius, at odds with the world and himself. |
| Illustrations: |
16pp colour and b/w |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Little, Brown |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for Cross Sports Book Awards Cricket Book of the Year 2016 (UK)
Short-listed for Cross Sports Book Awards Biography of the Year 2016 (UK)
Long-listed for Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award 2016 (UK) |
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Returnable |
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