Bridge: Winning Ways to Play Your Cards

by Paul Mendelson

Many bridge books feature magical and inspiring hands but hands that are never seen in day-to-day play at the bridge table. Bridge: Winning Ways to Play Your Cards concentrates on the type of hands that will make a real difference to your scores and which will help you improve your game.

Discover how to assess your opponents' strengths and weaknesses - in relation to your own - and win!

237 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 25, 2008

About the author

Paul Mendelson wrote stories at school when he should have been doing other things, but went on to become the, then, youngest ever playwright performed at the National Theatre, with his play, "You're Quite Safe With Me". This was followed by further work for theatre and, briefly, for television.

For twenty years, Paul has written on mind sports, such as bridge, poker and casino games, becoming the UK's best-selling author within his genre. He has contributed to magazines and newspapers worldwide, has a weekly bridge column in the Financial Times, and also writes interviews and features.

His debut crime novel, "The First Rule of Survival" was published in 2014, making the short-list of the CWA Golden Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year.
His second novel, "The Serpentine Road" was short-listed for several awards, including the CWA Gold Dagger again - an almost unheard of achievement - and received great acclaim in South Africa where it's political elements chimed with many that were in the news at the time.
Book 3, "The History of Blood" was published in July 2016, receiving accolades from reviewers in the national press in the UK, Eire and South Africa. It has been chosen as a Recommended Summer Read, Thriller of the Week and Thriller of the Month.
"Apostle Lodge" is his fourth novel set in Southern Africa, released for export on November 2017 and in the UK in February 2018, and it has received plaudits from around the world, hitting the top-ten Bestseller List in South Africa throughout the Christmas period.
Mendelson's fifth novel is set in England with a new detective.

Paul's novels now appear as audio books, Large Print books, and have been translated into French and German, with more languages to come, including Afrikaans (for the huge crime reading market in South Africa)

Each of the novels in the Vaughn de Vries series are set in Southern Africa, the novels allowing Paul's creative writing once again to come to the fore, and providing the perfect excuse to return to his beloved Cape Town to gain inspiration and time to write.

Paul lives in London (and, sometimes, Cape Town) with his two and four-legged family.

Reviews

[Bobbie Darbyshire · Rating 5 out of 5]

A brilliantly readable and clear little book that has transformed my declarer and defence play from ‘instinctive-hit-and-miss’ to ‘strategic-with-a-good-chance-of-getting-it-right’. Shall give it to my bridge partner and buy another for myself.

[Bobbie Darbyshire · Rating 5 out of 5]

A brilliantly readable and clear little book that has transformed my declarer and defence play from ‘instinctive-hit-and-miss’ to ‘strategic-with-a-good-chance-of-getting-it-right’. Shall give it to my bridge partner and buy another for myself.

[Shridhar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Refreshing take on bidding

Explains competitive bidding with examples. Need to keep coming back to this book from time to time to keep on improving

[J Hooper · Rating 4 out of 5]

Simplifies declarer and defence tactics. Gives good and simple ideas to improve discards and suit preference signals.