Stephen Chalke

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Stephen Chalke M.A. (born Salisbury, Wiltshire 1948) is an English author and publisher.

He has degrees in Drama, English and Philosophy, Mathematics and English Literature and has taught in adult, further and higher education. He combines writing and publishing with part-time university lecturing.

Through his private publishing firm Fairfield Books, he has written and published several highly acclaimed biographical and historical cricket books. His collaboration with the late Geoffrey Howard "At the Heart of English Cricket" won the 2002 Cricket Society Book of the Year Award, and his "No Coward Soul" (his biography of Bob Appleyard, co-written with Derek Hodgson)was the Wisden Book of the Year for 2003. He also works for the Open University.

[edit] Publications

As author:

• "Runs in the Memory" (1997); Winner of the "Guardian Book of the Year"
• "Caught in the Memory" (1999)
• "One More Run" (2000) (with Bryan 'Bomber' Wells)
• "At the Heart of English Cricket" (2001) (with Geoffrey Howard); Winner of the Cricket Society Book of the Year
• "No Coward Soul" (2003) (with Derek Hodgson) Winner of the Wisden Book of the Year
• "Ken Taylor - Drawn to Sport" (2006)
• "A Summer of Plenty - George Herbert Hirst in the Summer of 1906" (2006)
• "Tom Cartwright - The Flame Still Burns" (2007)

As publisher:

• "Fragments of Idolatry" (2001) by David Foot
• "The Appeal of the Championship" (2002) by John Barclay
• "Harold Gimblett: Tormented Genius of Cricket" (2003) by David Foot
• "Born to Bowl" (2004) by Douglas Miller
• "Charles Palmer: More Than Just A Gentleman" (2005) by Douglas Miller
• "It's Not Just Cricket" (2006) by Peter Walker