It's Always Summer Somewhere: A Matter of Life and Cricket - A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK & SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLE

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Felix encapsulates what cricket means to so many, and despite it being a sport which can be baffling to a neutral and engrossing to those who know, his words show a love for the game. I also enjoyed the interviews he did with former test players from across many cricket playing nations. Bernardine Evaristo’s life story is a manifesto for courage, integrity, optimism, resourcefulness and tenacity. He co-presents BBC podcast Tailenders with Greg James and England's most successful ever fast bowler Jimmy Anderson, which has proved a 'safe space' in which to channel his enthusiasm for it regularly. But, in short, it's a stunning read that for any reader will bring back memories of your own life whilst Felix reflects poignantly on his own life.

A deeply moving book on both the large and the small of life, and how each is used to help survive the other. An unabashed love letter to the sport that has defined Felix White's life, It's Always Summer Somewhere articulates why cricket engenders such passion and devotion through his own moving and uplifting relationship with the game. com/ All I need is to be careful and correlate different data based on their situation in the current season. The exploits of Tufnell (another bowler of 'lovely loopy stuff'), Atherton, Hussain et al, are given extra import through the eyes of a cricket-obsessed youth. If you know cricket at all, or even better if you like cricket - fantastic, as it's the primary topic.It was this devotion that led to the birth of the Bunnymen, to the days when he and Ian McCulloch would muck around with reel-to-reel recordings of song ideas in the back parlour of his parents’ council estate house, and to finding a community – friends, enemies and many in between – with those who would become post-punk royalty from the likes of Dead or Alive, Frankie Goes to Hollywood and the Teardrop Explodes to name a few. This had a very similar literary style to the Broken Greek by Pete Paphides although it is none the worse for that. Felix White's beautifully, elegantly and passionately written book reminds me why I love cricket so much. The novelist Ann Quin says she appears to be a ‘singular girl, singular and single’ but questions the use she makes of her freedom.

I love reading memoirs, listening to the Maccabees and watching cricket so I was hoping this book would satisfy all my cricket literature needs.The moments in his life, bookended with interviews from players, are written about with care, and the love for his family, including his mother, shines throughout. Neither of his parents - from Lebanon and the Isle of Wight - were into the game, so it is a slight mystery to everyone that he took to it as much as he did. With candour and lyricism, the ‘Duchess of Coolsville’ (Time) takes us on a singular journey through her nomadic childhood, to her years as a teenage runaway, through her legendary love affair with Tom Waits, and ultimately her longevity as the hardest working woman in rock and roll. I laughed and cried and like Felix cricket has been a part of my life (for over fifty years) Cricket is so often a metaphor for life and can be a tremendous force for good (check out cricketwithoutboundarie. A beautifully evocative book about the three most important things in the world: love, sport and music.

If I had one criticism of this book it would be that it is too short, if I had two it would be that it lacks Sylvain Legwinski. It's Always Summer Somewhere is his funny, heartbreaking and endlessly engaging love letter to the game. As a fully fledged part of the Tailenders community, I should probably preface this review with the acknowledgment that I went into reading the book inclined to like it, however the extent to which I did is a credit to White and his writing. Articulate, intensely personal at times and a beautiful reflection of life’s trials, tribulations and personal neuroses. He lives in South London where he continues to work on numerous musical projects, including film scores, and has still not overcome his rational fear of a cricket ball.Because while this is a book about cricket, it isn’t a book about cricket, it’s about loss, and grief, and learning and living. After more than fifty years out of print, Talking to Women is still as sparkling, honest, profound, funny and wise as when it was first published. Really enjoyed this and in many ways I could relate to the duality… in the sense that this book was about cricket and about coping with the premature death of one’s mother. Felix meets them at each signposted moment to find out what was really behind those moments that gave cricket fans everywhere sporting memories that would last forever, sending the book into an exploration of grief, transgenerational displacement and how the people we've known and things we've loved culminate and take expression in our lives. Through his own exploits as a slow left arm spinner of ‘lovely loopy stuff’, to the tragic illness of his mother, life with The Maccabees and his cricket redemption, Felix touches on both the comedic and the tragic in equal measure.