novel, Settling the Score, about a fictional county match late in the 1969 season. New Zealand cricket fiction New Zealand has produced some cricket fiction (mainly works for children and young people) and two adult novels in Michael O’Leary's Out of It (1987) and W. J. Foote's Poetry in Motion: The Tragic Tale of the Pukemanu Prodigy, New Zealand's Greatest Slow Bowler (2003). O’Leary's cult novella presents a fictionalised one-day match between New Zealand's mid-1980s team and an Out of It XI made up of rock stars, famous artists, poets and writers. A new edition of Out of It appeared in 2012 edited by cricket poetry anthologist Mark Pirie and published by HeadworX in Wellington, New Zealand. Pirie also lists books of New Zealand cricket fiction as an appendix sourced from Rob Franks's comprehensive bibliography of New Zealand cricket literature, Kiwi Cricket Pages (UK, c2006). Australian cricket fiction Malcolm Knox wrote the cricket crime novel A Private Man (2004), set against the background of a Test match in Sydney. Also in 2004 was Steven Carroll's The Gift of Speed, set during the West Indian tour of Australia in 1960-61. Jock Serong's The Rules of Backyard Cricket (2016), another cricket crime novel, tells the story of the rivalry between two brothers in the Melbourne suburbs who grow up to play in the Australian team. See also Bibliography of cricket Cricket in film and television Cricket poetry References External links Nicholas Hogg: Can cricket produce a great novel? at Cricinfo Cricket books and magazines Cricket culture