Pavilion of Heaven
Ferdinand Mount, 2 April 2026
Raffles, Gentleman Thief
by E.W. Hornung.
Penguin, 304 pp., £10.99, January,978 0 241 79022 9 Show More
by E.W. Hornung.
Penguin, 304 pp., £10.99, January,
Writers in Whites: How a Group of Literary Cricketers Changed English Culture
by Ollie Randall.
Fairfield, 288 pp., £22, May,978 1 915237 74 3 Show More
by Ollie Randall.
Fairfield, 288 pp., £22, May,
“... To understand fully how central cricket was to Hornung’s vision of England, you need to read Ollie Randall’s superb history of the rise and fall of cricket as the embodiment of Englishness. In the Raffles stories, actual cricket matches barely feature. For those, you must turn to the classics in the genre, such as J.C. Snaith’s Willow the ... ”
