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Good for a Girl: My Life Running in a Man’s World, by Lauren Fleshman

Review by Liz Dexter Millions of women carry an abundance of positive memories of their time in sport, but they also carry the invisible wounds of their sports experiences. As…

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This Sporting Life: Sport and Liberty in England, 1760 -1960, by Robert Colls

Review by Rob Spence Last November, in the midst of the Covid pandemic, strikes by essential workers, transport chaos, a cost-of-living crisis and the continuing devastation of the war in…

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Rough Magic: Riding the World’s Wildest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer

Review by Liz Dexter Lara is by her own account a bit scatter-brained. She’s been described as away with the fairies, didn’t see the point of school past a certain…

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Field of Shadows by Dan Waddell

Reviewed by Terence Jagger When I first heard of an English cricket tour to Germany in 1937, I assumed it was essentially subversive – that the tour would have been…

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