Eleven: We Burn Them In The Sun

11 Sept

Written By I.D.

BY cHRISTIAN rYAN

Watk. Raja. Jane (i). Shirvan. Cricket - the way it brings emotion and life and pain and memory and regret all hauntingly and combustively to light. John. Jane (iii). Shivalkar. Men and women whose destinies don't make sense.

Ask, was there a minute when the decline of West Indies cricket didn't have to turn out that way? What can be gained poring over the crooked lines of lives forged by, or infiltrated by, cricket?

Hold fast to dreams that stay vivid by disappearing: on Newcastle's streets, Darwin's.

This book moves like no other with humour and verve and tragedy. Frank. RR. Vowles. Carmino.

Allen & Unwin, 2026

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