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TFW Book Club - Brick by Brick, with Max Bonnell
Book Club 11: Max Bonnell - Brick by Brick: the Australian Cricketers in England 1964
The Ashes series of that summer gets a pretty bad rap. That’s understandable given one of the five Tests had a winner, and the Old Trafford batathon is an emblem of where that decade was less than captivating. But off the field, it was transformative. Specifically that summer, with Beatlemania at its peak and the election of an ambitious Labour government around the corner. Cricket was changing at a rapid pace too, even if it wasn’t immediately obvious. Max does a fine job threading these themes together and…
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