One Long and Beautiful Summer

Duncan Hamilton has written some of the best books about sport in recent years. All lovers of cricket will love this book. You could say that Hamilton has done it again. – Michael Henderson, on The Great Romantic * The Cricketer *Brilliantly expresses the passion that millions like him, in pursuit of happiness and belonging, feel for the beautiful game. Simply magnificent – on Going to the Match * Mail on Sunday *Hamilton is a worthy biographer – on The Great Romantic * The Times *A wonderfully languorous piece of time travel back to the so-called Golden Age of cricket – on The Great Romantic * Guardian *Hamilton has achieved the difficult task of humanising an icon while clearing the rubbish away from his plinth – on The Great Romantic * The Hindu *Duncan Hamilton is already a multiple award-winning sports writer, but it is hard to imagine he will write a better book than this superb, elegiac portrait of … Cardus – on The Great Romantic * Daily Mail *Rich in observation * The Cricketer *

Duncan Hamilton has won three William Hill Sports Book of the Year Prizes. He has been nominated on a further four occasions. He has also claimed two British Sports Book Awards and is the only writer to have won the Wisden Cricket Book of the Year on three occasions. His biography of the Chariots of Fire runner Eric Liddell, For the Glory, was a New York Times bestseller. He most recently collaborated with Jonny Bairstow on the cricketer’s autobiography, A Clear Blue Sky.

He lives at the foot of the Yorkshire Dales.