SANDY BALFOUR

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Travel News

My Bering journey begins! It will take me from St Petersburg, across the Urals and then across Siberia. I will mostly - like Bering - travel by river. The last stage of the journey will take me to Kamchatka and from there to Alaska. Bering died on his way back; I’m planning to make it all the way and, in effect, to circumnavigate the globe.

You can follow my thoughts on Bering, Russia and me here.

I am very grateful for the support I have received from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, whose 2010 fellowship has made this journey possible.

Book News

The paperback edition of What I Love About Cricket was published on 3 June. You can order it from Amazon. And The Audio Book, in a truly delightful reading by Clive Mantel, is available now.  

Reviews:

“Hilarious… one of those entertaining paeans to cricket and its role in life, the universe and everything.” The Guardian

“A warm, funny, realistic and affectionate book that uses one man’s adoration of cricket and his inability to communicate it to those that he loves as a metaphor for a father’s role in an increasingly adult daughter’s life. And, somehow, it works perfectly.” All Out Cricket, May 2009

“The descriptions of great cricketing moments are vivid (his six-page account of Collingwood's catch of Hayden off Harmison's bowling... is so good I had to YouTube it) and remind you what a brilliant game cricket is.” Brandon Robshaw in the Independent

But it’s not really about cricket. You can get the general idea from this piece I wrote in the Guardian. The Guardian helpfully catalogues everything each journalist writes. You can find more of my musings here.

“Highly entertaining.” Sir Tim Rice

Thanks for visiting.

Sandy Balfour

July 2010

The Audio and Paperback editions of What I Love about Cricket are available now.