One of Alfred Hitchcock’s great films of the 1930s, The Lady Vanishes, significantly involves cricket. Before this year similarly vanishes—along with The Lady—we call your attention to a super deal. “While supplies last,” as the pitchmen (not pitchers) say, our publisher, Paul Dry Books, is offering Right Off the Bat, all 208 pages of it, for the holiday-gift price of $5. That’s three quid! Click here for this extra-special offer. And know there is an adage in book publishing: Buy two—one to keep; the second to give away (as the perfect stocking stuffer). We are shameless. Go for it, Mate! (Here come Bouvard et Pécuchet-like Basil Redford and Naunton Wayne with more on the subject.)

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