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Batting on the Bosphorus

By Will 2 years ago, at the start of July Add your comment below

Batting on the Bosphorus: A Skoda-powered Cricket Tour Through Eastern Europe

Angus Bell, an intrepid Scot living in Canada, has produced another cricket book from the outer reaches of cricket’s hebrides. Previously it was Slogging the Slavs; now, he’s turned his attention to…eastern Europe. Actually, it might be a revised copy of the old book. I’m not sure. Anyway, it’ll probably be highly entertaining – Angus, if you’re reading, tell us more in the comments!

Go and buy it immediately at Amazon. GO TO IT NOW.

What the reviewers say:
“This book deserves to be as big a hit as the blow Bell dealt a cricket ball on the bridge over the Bosphorus, propelling it from Europe into Asia” Daily Telegraph
“Weird and wonderful… One of the maddest, most enterprising cricket tours of all time” The Guardian
“Whether cricket is your thing or not, [Batting on the Bosphorus] is as good a case of culture collisions as you will probably read this year… Angus Bell has in some ways shoved two fingers up to the other notable Scottish roadtrip of the last few years – Ewan McGregor’s Long Way Round. Because, quite simply, it’s better.” European Vibe Magazine *****5/5*****

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One Response to “Batting on the Bosphorus”

  • Angus wrote:
    July 3rd, 2008 at 4.43 pm

    Hi, Will,

    This is a true story about being sent by a Canadian psychic to play cricket around the former Soviet Bloc.

    Travelling by Skoda, I met Croatian winemakers, Bulgarian medical students, Ukrainian millionaires, and Slovak gardeners all playing the Englishman’s game with a passion. They played on ice inside former Soviet missile factories, beside minefields on Adriatic islands, in Slovenian V-shaped valleys, and in Belarusian carparks. And in between, I discovered a web of human trafficking, orgies on the wicket, mafia involvement, spies and murder. The game in Eastern Europe has a history stretching back to the Napoleonic Wars.

    It was originally self-published as Slogging The Slavs, and after becoming a Balkan best-seller, it got snapped up by Canongate (Batting on the Bosphorus – out this week), Penguin South Africa (Batting in the Baltic – out last month), and Douglas & McIntyre for the US/Canada (out next spring). Crucially, this means the distribution no longer relies on me flogging copies out of my bedroom.

    It just got picked as Book of the Week for BBC Radio 4 – (21st-25th July). You can tune in online at:
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/book_week.shtml

    Thanks, Angus.

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