Books by G.Derek West

Twelve unique biographical essays on professionals of the mid-Victorian era. Extensive and painstaking research has produced portraits of players selected for their cricketing prowess rather than manly virtues. On the whole they are an unattractive and undisciplined lot, and this makes for interesting reading.

Professor G. Derek West has devoted much of his time to the summer game, having contributed numerous articles to cricket magazines and journals as well as compiling indexes to several books and acting as a consultant cricket historian.