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From the three-time winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, a personal history of 150 years of cricket's most famous contest - the Ashes
In Ashes to Ashes, Duncan Hamilton looks at the relationship between England and Australia - politically, constitutionally, socially, economically, culturally - within the context of cricket, the game that binds the two nations together. While the Ashes is a focal point, Hamilton also examines State and Grade cricket in Australia and County Cricket in England. Ashes to Ashes is a journey beginning in Melbourne and ending at Lord's, touching in some form on every major event in the history of the Ashes, including the Packer Revolution and the consequences of that, and the little known Aboriginal tour to England in 1868.
About the author
Duncan Hamilton is the three-time winner of the William Hill Sports Book Award. He is the author of several cricket books, including the biography Larwood and 'The Summer series': A Last English Summer, The Kings of Summer, One Long and Beautiful Summer. He is also grateful to have been given the chance to work with Jonny Bairstow on the memoir: A Clear Blue Sky. He lives at the foot of the Yorkshire Dales.
