To the Edge of the World, originally published in the U.K. as This Thing of Darkness, was Harry Thompson's first novel. In 2005, it was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and short-listed for the Pendleton First Novel Award. Thompson died in November 2005 after a battle with cancer.
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It seemed a simple enough idea at the outset: to assemble a team of eleven men to play cricket on each of the seven continents of the globe. Except…that's not a simple idea at all. And when you throw in incompetent airline officials, cunning Bajan drug ... SEE MORE