Tales from the Village Green - Collected Tales Volume 1

By Michael White

Tales from the Village Green - Collected Tales Volume 1 brings together the first five of Michael White's well-loved stories about heroism and friendship on the village green cricket pitch. The stories included in this volume are Never Give Up, The Substitute, The Twelfth Man, Searching for W.G. and Grandad's Old Bat.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AMMFA Publishing
• Release date: Mar 12, 2014
• ISBN: 9781497706095

Michael White

Michael White is a pen name of Chris Ward, the acclaimed author of The Tube Riders science fiction trilogy. One of Chris's great loves as a schoolboy was village cricket, and he is currently the manager and specialist number nine batsman for the cricket club in Nagano, Japan, where he currently lives, a club which, at the time of writing, had approximately seven players.

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