Bøger af Chris Waters

This novel is a story of two different loves from a young individual by the name of Daxton Gainnes. Daxton is a single man in his lower twenties living in a small town in Arizona called Show Low. Golf is the only thing he has in life and loves every second of it, until one day he is convinced to move to Phoenix Arizona to enroll at Arizona State University. Everything is moving nice and slow in his life until he meets Shirley Moreno, a Hispanic girl who is better at golf than he is. He slowly gives up his dreams to play golf collegiately and professionally in order to help Shirley with her own dreams. Just like all relationships, Daxton and Shirley's relationship has its difficulties. Shirley has an ex-boyfriend, Kevin, that does not believe he and Shirley ever separated, even though she has made it known to him countless times. Kevin does all he can to make Daxton's life miserable and succeeds several times. However, such as real life, a heart has a way of overlooking pain and misery for true love, even if it is just for one summer and Daxton pushes through the hard times just to be with Shirley. The majority of Fairways and Dreams takes place in Phoenix Arizona, where a tender relationship begins to blossom. Shirley and Daxton spend every day together to help Shirley practice for an upcoming two-day tournament, where the winner of the tournament receives her LPGA card for a year. Daxton is more than ecstatic when Shirley asks him to be her caddie for the tournament. Kevin has other ideas about where Daxton should be and makes it known to him.

Few sporting records capture the imagination quite like that of the highest individual score in Test cricket. It is the blue riband record of batting achievement, the ultimate statement of stamina and skill. From Charles Bannerman, who scored 165 for Australia against England in the inaugural Test match in 1877, to Brian Lara, who made 400 not out for West Indies against England in 2004, the record has changed hands ten times. Chris Waters' The Men Who Raised the Bar charts the growth of the record through nearly one hundred and fifty years of Test cricket. It is a journey that takes in a legendary line of famous names including Sir Donald Bradman, Sir Leonard Hutton, Sir Garfield Sobers and Walter Hammond, along with less heralded players whose stories are brought back into the light. Drawing on the reflections of the record-holders, Waters profiles the men who raised the bar and their historic performances.

';Fred Trueman was the first superstar of the game. He was a flamboyant, larger-than-life character' Ian Botham. Fred Trueman was so much more than a cricketing legend. ';The greatest living Yorkshireman' according to Prime Minister Harold Wilson, he couldn't help excelling at everything he did, whether it was as a hostile fast bowler for Yorkshire and England, and the first man to take 300 Test wickets in a career, or as a fearlessly outspoken radio summariser for Test Match Special. He was famous for regularly spluttering that ';I don't know what's going off out there', as well as for the level of swearing he managed to incorporate into everyday speech. Beloved of cricket crowds who filled grounds to witness his belligerent way of playing the game, and nothing but trouble to the cricket authorities, ';Fiery Fred' was the epitome of a full-blooded Englishman. But as Chris Waters reveals in this first full biography, behind the charismatic, exuberant mask lay a far less self-assured man terrified even that his new dog wouldn't like him - and whose version of his bucolic upbringing bore no relation to the gritty and impoverished South Yorkshire mining community where he actually grew up. Drawing on dozens of new interviews with his Yorkshire colleagues, family and friends, this life of Fred Trueman will surprise and even shock, but also confirm the status of an English folk hero.