Collecting together appreciations of great cricketers from Bradman to Botham, Dexter to David Gower, this title includes pieces on cricket controversies like the Bodyline series and the D'Oliviera affair, letters to friends like John Arlott and VS Naipaul, and above all writings on James's first love, West Indies cricket.

Aurum's cricket list already published almost all the finest writers on the game: Derek Birley, Gideon Haigh, David Frith, David Rayvern Allen - and now it has added C.L.R. James.