Uzbek Culture & Food Festival, coming to London this June! All the details are here: uzbekculture.co.uk.

The Times of Central Asia (The Times of Central Asia), the independent newspaper I edit, is looking for English-speaking writers based in the five countries to contribute (paid) short news stories and features. If that's you, please follow me and get in touch. Or tag people to recommend them!

Doing Deals: At Paris Forum, Turkmenistan Makes a Pitch to the West ow.ly/nrtt50Rrfgj #Eurasia #CentralAsia #Turkmenistan #ParisForum

Good morning from #Tajikistan

Nan baked in #tandir goes so well with butter 🧈 - what I really like for breakfast 🍳

Enjoy your Sunday 🥰

Had a great evening yesterday talking at NorfolkCricketSoc about the Ukrainian cricket team. I did my best to introduce some really fascinating players. The book is out with Pitch Publishing 📚 Sports Books on 13 May.

I'll be talking about the book with NorfolkCricketSoc at HorsfordCC in a couple of hours, at 7.30pm, so if you're at a loose end in Norwich this evening come and join us!
Getting Out comes out with Pitch Publishing 📚 Sports Books on 13 May.

Kuandyk Bishimbayev Pleads Guilty to Negligent Homicide ow.ly/gIqA50Ro8V3 #Eurasia #CentralAsia #Kazakhstan #BishimbayevTrial #JusticeForWomen #SaltanatNukenova #femicide #FemicideAwareness #EndViolence #StopFemicide #DomesticViolence #LegalReform #GenderEquality

Although the hardback version has been slightly delayed (but can still be pre-ordered!), I believe that the Kindle version of my book about the Original English Lady Cricketers, published by Pitch Publishing 📚 Sports Books is available now. Please spread the word!! pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/forgotten…

🏏 📚 Out today! 🏏 📚

The #WestIndies in the 1980s were one of the greatest teams in Test #cricket history. In 1984 they hammered England 5-0 in the famous so-called 'Blackwash' series. Richard Sydenham examines all the stories connected with the tour 👇
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The book is now coming out on 13 May, but I'll be talking about it with NorfolkCricketSoc tomorrow evening. If you're in or around Norwich, come to HorsfordCC and hear the story of an incredible group of cricketers ⬇️

Paulo Fonseca and Roberto De Zerbi are the frontrunners to be the next Liverpool manager, but the managerial CVs of Mircea Lucescu and Luís Castro reportedly also fit the board's requirements.

Great day out yesterday with The Metronomes CC

Really great to meet so many new friendly faces, and a massive thank you to Ripley Cricket Club Yorkshire for hosting us all!

Great to see first hand the work that owenjervis is doing with Yorkshire Disability Cricket. Good luck for the rest of the season!

Tomorrow The Metronomes CC – a friendly wandering cricket team supporting National Autistic Society and #InclusiveCricket – are playing two matches on the same day: in Yorkshire (at @RCCYorkshire) and Leicestershire (at @FVCC). If that's near you, come and say hi. And give everyone ⬆️ a follow...

AKMARAL Book Tour is shaping up! AKMARAL: a nomad woman warrior on the ancient Central Asian steppes must make peace with making war. Preorder: books2read.com/Akmaral
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#booktour Regal House Publishing #historicalfiction #booklaunch

'Rhine maiden' sounds like a rock covers band from Düsseldorf.

🇺🇦🏏 | Telling the story of Kyiv and Kharkiv's other sporting rivalry, batters turned snipers and the refugee girls squad, my book 'GETTING OUT: The Ukrainian Cricket Team's Last Stand on the Front Lines of War' is out next week.
Details | To pre-order ⬇️
pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/getting-o…