- Published: 2 June 2008
- ISBN: 9780091901516
- Imprint: Ebury Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320
- RRP: $52.00
Fatty Batter
How cricket saved my life (then ruined it)
- Published: 2 June 2008
- ISBN: 9780091901516
- Imprint: Ebury Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 320
- RRP: $52.00
Extremely funny - whether or not you know your bails from your balls
Daily Mail
Once you've read this account of one man's love affair with cricket, you'll never want to read another ghosted autobiography by a Pietersen or a Vaughan again - incompetence and failure is far more fun
Michael Atherton
At last the work of genius that will finally bring the long-suffering cricket addict a measure of understanding in the world. A wonderful and very funny book
Sir Tim Rice
You read the wonderful Michael Simkins with a mixture of horror and delight
David Hare
Michael writes about disaster, humiliation, rejection and ridicule - the hilarious truth
Nicholas Hytner
An instant classic
Stephen Fry
One of Britain's funniest writers
Daily Mail
It is wonderfully written - full of wit, gags, self-deprecating asides and a pure, unfettered understanding of a man's limitations - and it talks to all of us. You should buy it. You really should go out straight away and pick up a copy. It'll make you feel so much better
All Out Cricket
The childhood recollections, suffused with warmth and spangled with pain and humour, are the book's unique selling point. Lovely stuff
Daily Telegraph
Simmo may be a shockingly average amateur cricketer, but when it comes to self- deprecating wit and telling a good anecdote, he's as sprightly as Garry Sobers in his prime ... anecdotes and quirky characters hurtle down at us like yorkers bowled by a fast bowler that I'm not quite knowledgeable enough to name ... an entertaining read indeed
Sunday Times
Brilliantly witty
Ed Smith, Daily Mail
One of the funniest sporting memoirs ever
Sunday Telegraph
Almost painfully funny
Observer