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Fibber in the Heat

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Fanatical about cricket since he was a boy, MILES JUPP would do anything to see his heroes play. But perhaps deciding to bluff his way into the press corps during England's Test series in India wasn't his best idea.

By claiming to be the cricket correspondent for BBC Scotland and getting a job with the (Welsh) Western Mail, Miles lands the press pass that will surely be the ticket to his dreams. Soon, he finds himself in cricket heaven - drinking with David Gower and Beefy, sharing bar room banter with Nasser Hussain and swapping diarrhoea stories with the Test Match Special team. Amazing!

But struggling in the heat under the burden of his own fibs, reality soon catches up with Miles as - like a cricket-obsessed Boot from Evelyn Waugh's Scoop - he bumbles from one disaster to the next. A joyous, charming, yet cautionary tale, Fibber in the Heat is for anyone who's ever dreamt about doing nothing but watching cricket all day long.

Critics Review

Crisply funny... Jupp is a genteel treat
Guardian
Jupp is intelligent, charismatic and one of the most established raconteurs around
Time Out
It's a tale of slavish fandom, the highs and lows of which are illustrated with dexterity... It's not only cricket fans and journalists who'll appreciate this yarn - it's a tale for lovers in the wider sense, and of the boundaries they'll cross
Independent
His tribute to the simple pleasures of fandom is a touching one
Guardian
Delightful and full of selfmockery
Mail on Sunday
Author Miles Jupp
Narrator Miles Jupp
Duration 8 hours and 10 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781448147229
Format Audiobook
Publisher Ebury Publishing
Genre Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Cricket, Humour, Individual actors and performers, Travel writing
Availability AU, GB, IE, US

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