Test CricketWILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD SHORTLISTED 2025 'Wonderfully wide focused, unfailingly readable and laced with passages of insightful analysis, Tim Wigmore's history of test cricket is a true tour de force.' David Kynaston 'Much more than simply a history of Test cricket, this is a colourful, modern take on the sport's most treasured format. I've commentated on over 400 Tests and learned so much from this wonderful book. Wigmore lays bare

the lingering odour of jasmine

Hundreds of stunning colour photographs throughout

exploring sunken cities and gathering up gold from lost pirate galleons

from its construction in the naval dockyards of Pembroke

Their bodies are malleable

who won the honour of knighthood on the field at Lewes

'Magic forged at Midsommer is the strongest and truest of all magic - both fair and foul

Activists sought to overthrow the Bolshevik regime from afar

That they will survive

as well as the 'living books' - prisoners of Auschwitz who know certain books so well

through sandstorms in the Sahara Desert

In his 80th year