Brian lara biography book

The most thrilling and controversial cricketer of his generation, Brian Lara is a hero to millions worldwide. A naturally attacking style and limitless scoring arc, allied to phenomenal mental and physical stamina, proved a recipe for some of the biggest and most-compelling innings in cricket history. This new biography charts the influences that shaped Lara as a child batting prodigy, through an astonishing and turbulent career and onto his post-cricket life as businessman, benefactor and national icon. Through in-depth interviews with former international players, coaches, teachers, neighbours, friends and family members, new light is shed on this brilliant but complex man; a true Caribbean hero who still has many chapters to write.

JamesFuller is an award-winning English journalist who has lived in Brian Lara’s homeland of Trinidad and Tobago for five years.Fuller writes on sport and business for the Associated Press and other newsagencies, as well as writing features for a number of Caribbean magazines. 

Caribbean Lives Series

£9.99 paperback

2013
208 pages
ISBN: 9781908493620

Set for release on 2 July, Lara: The England Chronicles tells the story of the Trinidadian’s extraordinary career against and in England in his own words – unfiltered and unrestrained.

Published by Fairfield Books and written with Phil Walker, editor-in-chief of Wisden Cricket Monthly, this is the definitive account of Lara’s incredible career against England as well as for Warwickshire in county cricket.

About the book

The true untouchables of sport possess a kind of mystery, and Lara – thrill-seeker, record-holder and genius – stands as perhaps cricket’s deepest enigma, at once a beautifully free strokemaker whose creativity captured an era, and an often tortured presence at the heart of a faltering West Indies side as the great teams of the past faded from view.

He saved his best work for England. His two world-record Test innings both came against them, ten years apart. His otherworldly 501*, the highest score in cricket history, took place in Birmingham. Even his final game for the West Indies came against England.

He understood what was at stake, what he stood for. Lara saw himself as a torchbearer for generations of revolutionary cricketers from the Caribbean stretching back through the ages, their deeds reilluminated with flashes of his own. It was against t

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