Cricket is a summer game, intended to be played on green fields under blue skies and warm sun. But, for the first time, a book explores the mesmerising beauty of cricket grounds in winter, carpeted with snow, through remarkable colour photographs depicting grounds from Lord's to the smallest village pitch in Lancashire, and internationally from New Zealand to the Indian Himalayas. For this aspect alone, Snow Stopped Play will be seized upon as the perfect gift for the cricket fan even by those utterly uninterested in the sport. But Snow Stopped Play is also a fascinatingly eccentric and charming disquisition, in the best tradition of cricket classics like Carr's Dictionary of Extra-Ordinary Cricketers, on the game of cricket itself, through its hitherto unexamined relationship with snow. Did John Arlott really find a snowflake on his sleeve at Lord's in June? Why did a Derbyshire batsman have to take his false teeth out after a snowfall at Buxton in 1975? And has the Sussex fast bowler and poet John Snow ever written a poem about snow?

About the Author
Graham Coster was formerly Publisher at Aurum Press, where he published successful cricket books like Britain's Lost Cricket Grounds. He now runs his own imprint, Safe Haven Books. He is the author of, among other books, Corsairville: The Lost Domain of the Flying Boat (Penguin: no. 11 Sunday Times non-fiction bestseller). He lives in London.

Reviews
'A delightful new book' - Daily Telegraph. 'A charming little book' - Daily Mail. 'A lovely book - Gideon Haigh. 'Beautiful' - All-Out Cricket magazine. 'A small polished pearl' - Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2016



Book Information
ISBN 9780993291104
Author Graham Coster
Format Hardback
Page Count 112
Imprint Safe Haven Books
Publisher Safe Haven Books