The Man Who Walked Out of the SunA biography of Garry Sobers, who turns 90 in 2026 and personifies the greatest of West Indian cricket At the end of the 1960s, Garry Sobers became the highest profile beneficiary of English cricket's decision to rid itself of the qualification rule about hiring overseas glamour. He picked Nottinghamshire, a side mediocre for so long that it was stranded on the margins of the Championship. In that first memorable summer Sobers so successfully sparked

absconding from the routine of mother

until 1921

Drawing on the V&A's collections

But when he discovers he has the unique ability to locate bountiful

and his wife Anna

for example the Aztec Zodiac

and is reshaping us in its image

bright lights and bureaucracy

​Book 10 in the Tudor and Plantagenet Novels series

and we started to adopt more primal

author of The Great Railway Bazaar

angels of oak and steel