Calling all cricket fans! We were so excited to have one of Aotearoa's greatest cricketers, Kane Williamson visit the team at Book Hero. He popped in to sign copies of his new book The Bare Margins and had a little kōrero with us of what he's been up to lately. Read more about his visit.....
Kane Williamson is well known as one of New Zealand's greatest cricketers and is NZ's leading international run-scorer. His biggest achievement as captain was leading the team to victory in 2021 in the World Test Championship. As well as captain of the team to the final of the 2019 Cricket World Cup. Earlier this year he announced his retirement saying now felt like the right time. His new book The Bare Margins will give great insight for fans into Kane's career as well as inspiring others.
While Kane kindly signed all of our books we got to chatting, he used to read a lot when on tour with some of his favourite reads being Walden by Henry David Thoreau along with Andre Agassi's memoir Open. He was a huge Jack Reacher fan back in the day also! These days however now that he is retired he's swapped non-fiction for children's books as he's able to spend more time with the family. So what's next for Kane Williamson? For now he's enjoying being home especially for Christmas, relaxing with a game of golf and playing some paddle. There was a buzz of excitement having him in the building with some staff and even some of our courier drivers who are huge fans managing to get a sneaky pic with Kane!
Review of The Bare Margins by Ian M
This is the best sporting biography I have ever read. Even the three forwards, by Virat Kohli, Brendan McCullum and Owen Eastwood are fascinating insights into this incredible thoughtful and extremely humble sportsman.
This book is not so much a biography, but a record of the development of a team culture that won the world test championship. It records Kane's continuation of the work that Brendan McCullum started creating a strong team-first culture, in a sport that appears to involve very individualistic performances.
While reading the book it kept reminding me of the approach of Gareth Southgate with the English football team and the fictional Ted Lasso. I thoroughly recommend this biography to everybody involved in managing groups of people.
Signed copies of The Bare Margins by Kane Williamson are available now, order your copy now before stock runs out!
