My only regret from yesterday's interview with the incomparable @norcrosscricket.bsky.social is that we didn't coordinate our outfits better
I'm still so pleased with how they put the book together
Ollie Randall
Ollie Randall
May highlight #1: launching Writers in Whites at a cricket match, and speaking on writers' affinity for playing cricket while proving, with my own inept performance, that this is not always the case
My piece, about Writers in Whites and the literary cricket culture wars, is out in The Times today:
www.thetimes.com/sport/cricke...
May highlight #2: visiting Westminster School to confirm plans to speak at their Winnie the Pooh centenary. (And catching a glimpse of the birthday boy through a window.)
AA Milne features in Writers in Whites, which explains this otherwise strange-sounding speaking engagement
In which I discuss the changing associations of cricket and literature in the early twentieth century, as explored in my book
May highlight #3: signing copies of Writers in Whites at Daunt Books!
@dauntbooks.bsky.social
Video
“Westminster needs to wake up…”
An important statement from the RHS today on the unfolding situation in UKHE.
Lovely tea time chat between @ollie-randall.bsky.social and @norcrosscricket.bsky.social on the Surrey livestream, talking Writers in Whites 🏏 #Cricket
From PG Wodehouse to JM Barrie, famous writers were proud to play for Conan Doyle’s ‘Author’s XI’ — until shifting attitudes led to brutal lampooning
