Eleven
We Burn Them in the Sun
Will be published approx. on 6. August 2026
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-1-80546-671-0 (ISBN)
Description
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, scattered across eras and continents, their stories a miraculous tapestry of near misses, strange turns and quiet, unglamorous devotion. Frank. RR. Vowles. Carmino.
From the freakish minute that might have prevented the slow decline of West Indies cricket to the jazz trombonist blocked from the England side, Christian Ryan, award-winning author of Golden Boy, reconstructs forgotten, fragile moments with breathtaking care.
The result is a wildly ambitious, compulsively readable exploration of the strange, luminous ways cricket shapes a life, sizzling with humour and verve and tragedy.
From the freakish minute that might have prevented the slow decline of West Indies cricket to the jazz trombonist blocked from the England side, Christian Ryan, award-winning author of Golden Boy, reconstructs forgotten, fragile moments with breathtaking care.
The result is a wildly ambitious, compulsively readable exploration of the strange, luminous ways cricket shapes a life, sizzling with humour and verve and tragedy.
Reviews / Votes
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 Cricket writing's most vivid, kaleidoscopic imagination -- Gideon Haigh At once unputdownable and also unpickupable, because if you pick it up you will eventually finish it and what are you going to do then? * Guardian, on GOLDEN BOY * Heartbreaking to read but such is the quality of Ryan's work you can't stop * Telegraph, on GOLDEN BOY *More details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
361 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80546-671-0 (9781805466710)
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Person
Christian Ryan is the author of Feeling is the Thing that Happens in 1000th of a Second, longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, and Golden Boy, winner of the Cricket Book of the Year and voted by Wisden Cricket Monthly the 'best cricket book ever'. He lives in Melbourne.