 The two volumes of autobiography are particularly valuable for the information they include on his contemporaries.In between the more serious works, Hughes produced his series of "The Art of Coarse..." studies which opened with "The Art of Coarse Cricket" in 1954 and was followed over the years by "...Coarse Travel", "...Gardening", "...Bridge", "...Cookery" and "..Entertaining".The series was named as a play on coarse fishing; other later "Coarse" books were written by Michael Green.