MAJOR  GOTHER ROBERT  CARLISLE CLARKE MB  CHM B 27 APRIL 1875 – D 12 OCTOBER 1917 by JAMES RODGERS “… to lay down his life in helping others.”   Gother Clarke’s family was extraordinarily well-connected. His father, Major General Mordaunt William Shipley Clarke (1833-1918) and mother, Georgina Alice (nee Mann), lived at ‘Branthwaite’ in North Sydney in gracious … [Read more...]

CRICKET BOOKS  AND  WRITERS by BILL FRANCIS In this digital world of Facebook, video grabs, click bait and smart phone fixation, a question – why would we continue to write and read cricket books?     Is there an audience out there with a commitment and concentration span deep enough to attempt to absorb 70,000 or 80,000 words rather than 140 characters of a tweet? Someone … [Read more...]