Bøker av Mihir Bose

Bracing yet affectionate reflections on migration, race and society in Britain since the 1960s, by a journalist who was the BBC's first ever non-white editor.

Dreaming the Impossible is the definitive book of racism in British sports. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of sport and his own personal experience of racism Mihir Bose examines the way racism has affected black and Asian sportsmen and women and how attitudes have evolved over the past fifty years.

The Nine Waves is a tour de force. An entertaining and up-to-date history of Indian cricket, it tells the story of the nine great waves of the game from 1932 to the present day. Each wave in Indian cricket was chock-full of stars, thrilling moments, great victories, heart-breaking losses and significant turning points.

Mihir has followed Indian cricket since his school days in Mumbai and The Nine Waves in his own style will bring out the subtleties and the nuances, pulls and pressures, theculture and colour, the politics and the people that make Indian cricket different from othercountries

Mihir Bose writes on British duality.

The sole quintuple spy of the Second World War he was the only spy the Soviet Union shared with the British who codenamed him Silver. He fooled the Nazis into paying him GBP2.5 m. They also gave him a transmitter which he used to broadcast false military information directly to Abwehr headquarters in Berlin. The Germans awarded him the Iron Cross.

Written by Mihir Bose, one of the UK's most influential sports/business journalists, he shares about the fascinating and gripping story of the rise of the English Premier League and the current crisis it faces.

Mihir Bose presents this fully updated account of the history of Indian cricket. Turning to his own research and personal experience he traces the development of the game and reveals its central place in modern India's identity, culture and society.