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Fatty Batter

Michael Simkins

A fat boy with a passion for sweets and a loathing for games, the young Michael Simkins finds in cricket a sport where size doesn't necessarily matter and a full-blown obsession is born. Now in middle-age, he still harbours the somewhat deluded belief that the England middle-order might usefully benefit from his hard-earned skills. From impromptu Test series played with his dad in the family sweetshop through to his years running a team of dysfunctional inadequates, Fatty Batter is the bestselling and hilarious story of one man's life lived through cricket.

Memoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Autobiography · high confidenceMemoir & Autobiography81 signalsLlm Classifier: Memoir & Autobiography -> Memoir & AutobiographyGoogle Books: Biography & Autobiography -> Memoir & AutobiographyGoogle Books: Biography & Autobiography -> BiographySports & AthletesFamily, Childhood & Adoption

Award History

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AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Costa Book Awards: Biography2007FinalistSecondary source
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    • Michael Simkins78%

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  4. 04 Reading orientation

    30 / 100 academic

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