Geoff Nicholson is a highly prolific writer, having produced some thirteen works of fiction and two of nonfiction over a period of fourteen years. This consistently regular output has kept him in the literary public eye, and his quirky and daring...

PERHAPS THE most startling thing about Geoff Nicholson's 13th novel is the apparent subservience of form to content. This isn't to say that Nicholson ignores questions of style, or has no interest in the symbolist saucepans that most novelists keep boiling away: simply that...

The Picador Book of Cricket edited by Ramachandra Guha Picador, pounds 20, 491pp EVEN THE humblest sporting contest involves the unfolding of a narrative. At the very least there's the story of who wins and who loses. But cricket provides...