Beyond the Boundary: Where Are the Australian Cricket Novels?
Simon Castles
In the opening pages of Shehan Karunatilaka’s extraordinary debut novel, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, there is a direct sales pitch to the reader: ‘If you’ve never seen a cricket match; if you have and it has made you snore; if you can’t understand why anyone would watch, let alone obsess over this dull […]
