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Cricket’s soul: vulnerability, fate, memory, and the turning points of life.
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  • Hardcover

    312 pages

  • Release Date

    1 September 2026

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Summary

“Groundbreaking, brilliant and unforgettable. Christian has aimed to create a certain kind of work of art and he has pulled it off. It is one of those books that will give more and more to the reader each time they go back into it.” - Malcolm Knox

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 destinie…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781743311370
ISBN-10:1743311370
Author:Christian Ryan
Publisher:Allen & Unwin
Imprint:Allen & Unwin
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:312
Release Date:1 September 2026
Weight:290g
Dimensions:27mm x 139mm x 209mm
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B-Format
Eleven by Christian Ryan - ISBN: 9781743311370
139 × 209 mm
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A4
mm / in
About The Author

Christian Ryan

Christian Ryan is the author of Feeling is the Thing That Happens in 1000th of a Second. His book Golden Boy, a biography of Kim Hughes, was the winner of Cricket Book of the Year and voted ‘Best Cricket Book Ever’ by Wisden Cricket Monthly.

As an essayist, his major works include ‘Jeff Thomson Is Annoyed’, ‘The Unremembered Six’, ‘Blew’, and ‘The Thirty-Ninth Summer of DK Lillee’. He is the author of the essay/pictorial cultural sweeps Rock Country and Australia: Story of a Cricket Country, and was the first editor of The Monthly, the national magazine of politics and the arts.

He lives in Naarm/Melbourne.

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