Christopher Scoble

Christopher Scoble was born in Hampshire in 1943 but grew up in East Kent. He is author of two biographies of Edwardian subjects – the writer and social observer, Stephen Reynolds and the Kent and England cricketer, Colin Blythe.
He lives in Dorset.

Colin Blythe

Colin Blythe, voted by former England spinner Phil Edmonds as one of the country’s top 100 bowlers, was a giant in the golden age of county cricket before the First World War. He was the most famous England cricketer to be killed in the conflict. This is the first biography…

Letters from Bishopsbourne

Letters from Bishopsbourne is a collective biography of three of the most distinguished stylists writing in the English language, who lived and died in the small village of Bishopsbourne just south of Canterbury in Kent: Richard Hooker (1554–1600), the theologian whose major work. Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, provided…