Slipless in Settle by Harry Pearson

Posted by Tony Hutton

Book Review - Slipless in Settle by Harry Pearson

Harry Pearson is best known as a football writer - his football book 'The Far Corner' is a classic. He has also written such diverse books as 'Racing Pigs and Giant Marrows' and 'A Tall Man in a Low Land'.

Now he has turned his attentions to cricket or more precisely as he says - a slow turn around northern cricket. He visits the farthest corners of northern England and visits among others such places as Workington, Guisborough, Lascelles Hall, Carlisle, Bacup, Settle and Windhill.

His first dilema was to decide where the north begins and being from Middlesborough, his father drew a line from the Mersey to the Humber and said anything north of that line is the North. This suprisingly means that the natives of Sheffield, Doncaster and Barnsley (including Geoffrey Boycott) are regarded as southerners.

However, Pearson has a great feel for the area as well as for league cricket and it's history and character's of which there are so many. A wonderful read for any cricket enthusiast and certainly compulsory reading for all professional cricket watchers.

'Slipless in Settle' by Harry Pearson is published by Little, Brown publishers in paperback at £12.99, but can be obtained from Amazon UK at £8.99.