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UK - John Murray

Penguins Stopped Play

By Harry Thompson

Published Jan 2010

It seemed a simple enough idea at the outset. To assemble a team of eleven men to play cricket on each of the seven continents of the globe.

Except – hold on a minute – that’s not a simple idea at all. And when you throw in incompetent airline officials, amorous Argentine colonels’ wives, cunning Bajan drug dealers, gay Australian waiters, overzealous American anti-terrorist police, idiotic Welshmen dressed as Santa Claus, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and whole armies of pitch-invading Antarctic penguins, you quickly arrive at a lot more than you bargained for.

Harry Thompson’s hilarious book tells the story of one of those great madcap enterprises that only an Englishman could have dreamed up, and only a bunch of Englishmen could possibly have wished to carry out.

Shortlisted for the Galaxy British Book Awards 2007
Tesco Sports Book of the Year