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Peter Pan's First XI: The Extraordinary Story of J.M. Barrie's Cricket Team [Hardcover]

Kevin Telfer (Author)
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Book Description

Publication Date: 13 May 2010
The creator of Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie, was a hugely enthusiastic cricketer of very little talent. That didn't stop him from leading perhaps the most extraordinary amateur cricket team ever to have taken the field. Some of the twentieth century's most famous writers including A. A. Milne, P. G. Wodehouse, Jerome K. Jerome and Arthur Conan Doyle, regularly turned out for Barrie's team between 1890 and 1913. This very Edwardian vision of village cricket was only brought to an end by the First World War.

Those years of golden summers were recounted in Barrie's letters and journals, many revealed here for the first time. Cricket lovers will identify with Barrie's attempts to assemble a team of competent players.

In PETER PAN'S FIRST XI, Kevin Telfer weaves together cricket, literature, history, humour and biography to create an entertaining account of this little-known band of cricketing Peter Pans - and the age in which they lived.

Product details

  • Hardcover: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Sceptre; 1st Edition, First impression. edition (13 May 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0340919450
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340919453
  • Product Dimensions: 13.8 x 2.8 x 22.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 194,386 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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'Telfer's book is a fine exposition of a little-known subject, one that manages to be more than just a cricketing chronicle, and that uses Barrie's haphazard team as a prism through which to view the wider pre-war period.' (Andrew Holgate, Sunday Times )

'Telfer combines a mordant humour with an imaginative ambition to find in this celebration of cricket an allusive metaphor for a golden twilight of prelapsarian Edwardian England and the fall of a graceful innocence, when stumps were pulled for the last time, into the trenches and the immortality of Neverland' (The Times )

'We have an increasing need for Edwardian idylls in the 21st century, and Barrie's idyll, which involved the creation of a cricket team who tried very hard indeed never to grow up, is lovingly recorded in Peter Pan's First XI, by Kevin Telfer. The tragedy is that we all have to grow up, but at least we have cricket to keep the process at bay.' (Simon Barnes, The Times )

'Cricket is a literary game and there was no more literary team than the playwright J.M. Barrie's team'

(Peter Lewis, The Daily Mail )

'Entertaining' (The Times Literary Supplement )

'In this delightful book, Kevin Telfer tells the story of this lifelong love affair and its implications for Barrie and his charmed circle. The book attempts to capture an age and its attitudes and can be enjoyed by even those who do not have a penchant for England's summer game.' (The Telegraph, Calcutta )

'This is a wonderful book, written with great elegance and affection, scrupulously researched and packed full of terrific stories.' (Spectator )

'Evocative and often very funny'. (Sunday Telegraph )

About the Author

Kevin Telfer is the author of three books. He has written for the Guardian, the Sunday Times and The Idler. He has a lifelong love of listening to cricket on the radio and lives in London.

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4.3 out of 5 stars
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5.0 out of 5 stars Beyond the boundary 15 May 2010
By R. Hick
Format:Hardcover
A brilliant read that brings together two normally exclusive themes - the lives of some of the most creative and eccentric individuals and the joyous amateurism of scratch cricket. It is set in that golden age of innocence and optimism before the great war to which generations look back on as the truest expression of a half idealised England. A bright eyed world where the ordinary is a source of exploration, adventure, challenge and fellowship. Totally recommend this read but beware - it's a book that you will want to share.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Not Just Cricket 21 Oct 2010
By A Clifford
Format:Hardcover
This really is an excellent book, not just about the Golden Age of cricket, or JM Barrie, or his fellow crickets which include A A Milne, PG Wodehouse and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (who apparently bowled out W G Grace), but actually about a very particular era of British culture - when, for a variety of reasons, certain writers like Barrie and Milne began to venerate boyhood, and in particular boyhood games and pastimes. In the way that today teenagedom is celebrated and fetishised, so (some of) these writers looked to the apparent freedom of boyhood games as a kind of ideal, never to be regained in adulthood. It's a view of the world that doesn't really find an echo now, and so feels both dated and yet evocative. Anyway, the book itself is full of lovely details and stories, as well as a fair amount of rather sad - and sweet - anecdotes and incidents. It's a great 'way in' to a period that isn't written much about - being neither Victorian nor Edwardian for the most part - and yet somehow gently offers up a good deal of insight into British mythical and not-so-mythical history. Anyone who's looking for a good book remembering cricket's past will enjoy this, and all the more so if they're looking for something that digs a little deeper as well. An extremely enjoyable read.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Barrie and Cricket 20 Oct 2011
By Roger W
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This is a delightful book for all fans of cricket and J.M Barrie. It gives a detailed and documented history of the Allahakbarries Cricket team. It is written in very readable prose and is not short of humour. A good read
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