The Englishman is the gripping story of an Edwardian hero who fights for the glory of his country on the Western Front – only to have his world torn apart. Set across Oxford, Cornwall, the Western Front and the Aegean, the book follows the fate of a cricketing prodigy with the world at his feet who leaves university to defend all he holds dear – only to find himself in the ranks of the lost generation in the war to end all wars. Can he find salvation and fulfil his destiny in the new world that emerges from the ashes of the old? In this moving tale of love, loss and redemption, Tim Brooks paints an evocative portrait of Edwardian high society and the golden age of cricket – an era abruptly ended by an inhuman war that changed England forever.

"Drenched in cricket and sunshine and the horrors of the battlefield, The Englishman irresistibly returns the reader to a vanished world of willow and warfare. I read it with great pleasure."

Tim Brooks is an experienced cricket writer and novelist who has written for publications such as Wisden, The Nightwatchman and The Cricketer. He has also commentated on a range of global tournaments. The author of books on European cricket and a global history of the sport, his first novel was the critically acclaimed The Batmaker of Copenhagen, also published by Pitch.