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Thu 06 Jun 2010Allahakbarries, smoking and cricket - the passions of JM Barrie's literary eleven
BOOK OF THE DAY:Peter Pan’s First XI: The Extraordinary Story of JM Barrie’s Cricket TeamBy Kevin Telfer Sceptre, 344pp, £16.99
PETER PAN is not someone you hear much about now, and if you do it is as a term of mild abuse. But from 1904 the eponymous play, and the novel it later became, Peter and Wendy, about a boy who never grew up, made JM Barrie a very wealthy man and a household name. He was the most commercially and critically successful British writer of his time.
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