Posted by We originally pitched The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments as The 52 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments in honour of Rob Key’s half century in the 2002 Boxing Day Test that so triumphantly denied Australia an innings victory and forced them to bat a second time. Alas, Affirm Press fought us down to a round 50. We obviously didn’t want the 51st and 52nd entries to go to waste though, so we’re going to publish them online as amuses bouches for the 50 that made it onto paper.
Our book co-author Dan Liebke has published Number 52 in his newsletter and we’ll be publishing Number 51 according to our usual “in the fullness of time” schedule. (Don’t worry, it’ll be fairly soon. We’ve got a book to sell, after all.)
Number 52 is Mark Waugh Replaces Steve, aka The Second World(-Class) Waugh. It is not in the book, but it’ll give you a pretty decent sense what the rest of the book is like.
Go and have a read and then please leave a nice comment below saying how fun it is and how you’ve ordered the book and can’t wait to read it.
A reminder that you can order The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments from bookshop.org and also a few other places, including Amazon. Please don’t use Amazon unless we really, really can’t persuade you otherwise. (To be 100% clear on this, we would rather you buy it from Amazon than not buy it at all.)
Entertaining posting on Dan’s site. I have indeed pre-ordered the book.
I would say all that on Dan’s site, but only paid subscribers can comment on his site and I draw the line at buying a subscription just to post the above sentiment. Perhaps you, KC, can post the above comment on my behalf on Dan’s site.
Your book comes out on what would have been my parents’ “platty jube” had they lived until their 70th wedding anniversary. https://flic.kr/p/iZc4PD . I expect they would be a right grumpy pair by now had they done so, dad would 106 years old and mum 103. Fun fact about that wedding: they got married in The Empire Ballroom (a very unusual location for a wedding ceremony in 1955). Dad took great pleasure in alter life boasting that they got married in Spearmint Rhino (a strip club, m’lud), which that Tottenham Court Road location subsequently became.
An auspicious date! (Even if we’re still not 100 per cent confident what that date is ourself. We don’t think it’s possible to actually get your hands on a copy in the UK until November 6.)
Congratulations on the new book KC! Nicely-timed for Christmas,
Thanks Miriam!
Needless to say, everyone will be hearing plenty about your second point in the coming weeks.