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Miles Jupp (Author)
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Book Description

Publication Date: 6 Jun 2013

** Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award **

Fanatical about cricket since he was a boy, Miles Jupp would do anything to see his heroes play. But perhaps deciding to bluff his way into the press corps during England's Test series in India wasn't his best idea.

By claiming to be the cricket correspondent for BBC Scotland and getting a job with the (Welsh) Western Mail, Miles lands the press pass that will surely be the ticket to his dreams. Soon, he finds himself in cricket heaven - drinking with David Gower and Beefy, sharing bar room banter with Nasser Hussain and swapping diarrhoea stories with the Test Match Special team.

But struggling in the heat under the burden of his own fibs, reality soon catches up with Miles as he bumbles from one disaster to the next. A joyous, charming, yet cautionary tale, Fibber in the Heat is for anyone who's ever dreamt about doing nothing but watching cricket all day long.

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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Ebury Press; Reprint edition (6 Jun 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0091943132
  • ISBN-13: 978-0091943134
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 15,270 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"Crisply funny... Jupp is a genteel treat" (Guardian)

"'[I]t's a tale of slavish fandom, the highs and lows of which are illustrated with dexterity... It's not only cricket fans and journalists who'll appreciate this yarn - it's a tale for lovers in the wider sense, and of the boundaries they'll cross" (Independent)

"Jupp is intelligent, charismatic and one of the most established raconteurs around" (Time Out)

"His tribute to the simple pleasures of fandom is a touching one" (Guardian)

"A very funny book about a very silly plan" (Jonathan Agnew)

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Cricket obsessive Miles Jupp hatches an ill-conceived plan to join the England cricket team in India
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5.0 out of 5 stars Chortle-on-a-tram 6 Mar 2014
By Poke
Format:Kindle Edition
Well, I wasn't sure whether this book was going to be my thing or not but I was hooked after the first couple of pages. I laughed out loud and chortled my way through my tram-bound commute to a coroners inquest - perhaps inappropriately, in retrospect.

Great stuff and I thoroughly recommend it to cricket fans and cricket casual acquaintances alike!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great read 27 Feb 2014
By Steve Wragg
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Very funny book, well written and full of self depreciating humour making it well worth a read for cricketers and blaggers everywhere.
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5.0 out of 5 stars best fly on the wall i`ve read 13 Jan 2014
By damian owen
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just a great comedy romp wish I`d done what he did. Miles Jupp is amiable and self deprecating. you don't have top be a cricket fan to read it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Witty and quirky 4 Oct 2013
By M. V. Clarke VINE VOICE
Format:Paperback
This book recounts Miles Jupp's attempts to blag his way as a cricket journalist on England's tour of India in 2006. Despite no experience, Jupp decides this is simply what he has to do; he loves cricket and feels envious of the occupants of the press box, so decides to attempt to join them. By deceit and trickery, he persuades BBC Scotland and the Western Mail (South Wales) to cover the tour for them, but this doesn't result in a smooth passage. He has endless trouble getting hold of a press pass, and, once in India, neither potential employer seems keen to engage him in any real journalistic work. He does end up writing a blog for the Western Mail, though. Jupp's tale is one of hapless and often hilarious woe; he quickly shows himself up in the press box by acting like a fan rather than a journalist, and there are several other moments that made me cringe on his behalf. However, as the tour goes on, a rather nasty stomach complaint gives him time to reflect on the situation he finds himself in; journalism seems harder than he thought, and the change in attitude from supporter to someone watching the cricket as part of their job is far bigger than he'd imagined. After feeling thoroughly fed up, he does, however, rekindle his passion for cricket, but once again as a supporter, rather than a journalist. Throughout, the story is told with self-deprecating good humour, and it's an easy, enjoyable read.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Better than I expected 3 Oct 2013
By Slow Lorris
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I was a little wary of this book as the whole "blagging a press pass" set-up seemed rather artificial. But I really enjoyed it and laughed out loud in several places. Miles Jupp tells a good story, as you might expect from a stand-up comedian, and is an amusing innocent abroad in the world of sporting journalism, although I did find him implausibly naive about what the day-to-day life of a cricket journalist would involve.

Cricket fans may be intrigued to discover which cricket journalists were friendly towards a newbie on tour and which were beastly to him (the beastly ones are anonymised but I reckon I identified a couple of them). Sadly missing is anything about which journalists rumbled Miles's masquerade. It would have made an entertaining epilogue.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Blagging Your Way Round A Test Series 7 Sep 2013
By Patrick Elliott
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A good read and a good insight into what goes on 'behind the scenes' at a Test Series. I think there's a serious book to be written on this subject too.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A jolly good read 11 Feb 2014
By cjdowsett
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If you like cricket you will love this, makes you wish you had become a journo if this tour is a guide!
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5.0 out of 5 stars really captured cricket in India 5 Nov 2013
By chrissie7
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my husband loved the book it made him laugh and having been to India to watch cricket he could so identify with what Miles was saying very well written seeing the funnier side of cricket more please Miles.
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