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Bookends

Captain courageous

21 November 2013

3:00 PM

21 November 2013

3:00 PM

Andrew Strauss is a serious man and Driving Ambition (Hodder, £20, Spectator Bookshop, £18) is a serious book. It looks like most other sporting autobiographies: there are heroes, jokes and solecisms aplenty. Yet it is also the Bildungsroman of a determined bloke making the most of his talents.

Strauss rejects the truism ‘You make your own luck’; but in his case, I’m not convinced.

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