Byron Rogers

Byron Rogers is a journalist who has travelled around Britain searching for the more eccentric happenings in the country. This collection brings together his quirkiest articles; from the octogenarian tri-athlete to the 'Ghost train' of Stalybridge.

As a headmaster, cricket enthusiast, conservation campaigner, author and publisher, J L Carr was the most English of Englishmen. This biography, which manages to be comic and touching, tells the life of a thoroughly decent man.