W.G. Grace is one of the most famous cricketers of all time. An Englishman, he is one of the players that put cricket on the map, and set a lot of the records in the sport. Anyone who knows much about cricket, will have heard of him.

This book claims to be an "An Intimate Biography". You'd expect it to be more about his background, upbringing, and what was going on around him. It wasn't. It read more as a step by step run through of significant cricketing events in his life, with the odd side-serving of births, deaths and marriages.

In short, it's a decent cricketing biography, just not one that I was expecting.