Gideon Haigh

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Gideon Haigh is an Australian journalist and writer, born in 1965. He was educated at Trinity College at the University of Melbourne. He has contributed to numerous newspapers and magazines in his thirty years as a journalist. He has written thirty books and edited seven others. His book, On Warne, mostrar más won the British Sports Book Awards Best Cricket Book of the Year Award, the Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award, the Jack Pollard Trophy, and the Waverley Library Nib Award. The Office won the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction. Other recent titles include Uncertain Corridors: Writings on Modern Cricket, End of the Road?, and The Deserted Newsroom. He was the winner of the 2016 Ned Kelly Awards best true crime award for Certain Admissions. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos

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The Uncyclopedia (2003) 142 copias

The cricket war: The inside story of Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket (1993) 52 copias

On Warne (2012) 44 copias

Mystery Spinner: The Story of Jack Iverson (1999) 40 copias

Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper and the Shot That Changed Cricket (2016) 33 copias

Peter the Lord's Cat: And Other Unexpected Obituaries from Wisden (2006) 33 copias

Game for Anything: Writings on Cricket (1622) 28 copias

Silent Revolutions: Writings on Cricket History (2006) 27 copias

The Big Ship: Warwick Armstrong and the Making of Modern Cricket (2001) 26 copias

Brilliant Boy: Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent (2021) 25 copias

Asbestos House: The Secret History of James Hardie Industries (2006) 25 copias

Bad Company: The Strange Cult of the CEO (2003) 25 copias

The Office: A Hardworking History (2012) 24 copias

Ashes 2005: The Full Story of the Test Series (2005) 24 copias

Certain Admissions: A Beach, a Body and a Lifetime of Secrets (2015) 22 copias

Sphere of Influence: Writings on Cricket and Its Discontents (2010) 20 copias

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack Australia 2001-01 (3rd Edition) (2000) 18 copias

Inside Out: Writings on Cricket Culture (2008) 18 copias

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack Australia 1998 (1998) 17 copias

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack Australia 1999 (2nd Edition) (1999) 15 copias

The Summer Game: Australian in Test Cricket 1949-71: Australia in Test Cricket 1949-71 (1997) 15 copias

Ashes to Ashes (2014) 14 copias

Downed Under: The Ashes in Australia 2006-2007 (2007) 14 copias

The Green & Golden Age: Writings on Cricket (2007) 14 copias

Ashes 2011: England's Record-Breaking Series Victory (2011) 14 copias

Crossing the Line (2018) 14 copias

Parachutist at Fine Leg: And Other Unusual Occurrences from Wisden (2007) 13 copias

The Racket: How Abortion Became Legal in Australia (2008) 12 copias

Many a Slip: A Diary of a Club Cricket Season (2002) 12 copias

A Scandal in Bohemia (2018) 11 copias

A Fair Field and No Favour: The Ashes 2005 (2005) 11 copias

Endless summer : 140 years of Australian cricket in Wisden (2002) 11 copias

The Border years (1994) 10 copias

Inside Story: Unlocking Australian Cricket's Archives (2007) 10 copias

The Vincibles : a Suburban Cricket Season (2002) 10 copias

The tencyclopedia (2004) 8 copias

The penguin book of Ashes anecdotes 1882-2005 (2006) 8 copias

End of the road? (2013) 8 copias

Fat Cats: The Strange Cult of the CEO (2005) 7 copias

The Ultimate Test: The Story of the 2009 Ashes Series (2009) 6 copias

The summer game : cricket and Australia in the 50s and 60s (2006) 6 copias

Australian Cricket Anecdotes (1996) 6 copias

The Deserted Newsroom: Penguin Specials (2012) 5 copias

The battle for BHP (1987) 5 copias

Uncertain Corridors: Writings on Modern Cricket (2013) 5 copias

One Summer, Every Summer - An Ashes Journal (1995) 5 copias

One of a kind : the story of Bankers Trust Australia 1969-99 (1999) 5 copias

The Ashes 2009 (2009) 5 copias

Shelf Life: Journalism 2000-2021 (2021) 4 copias

Deciclopédia (2008) 4 copias

The Book of Ashes Anecdotes (2006) 4 copias

The night was a bright moonlight and I could see a man quite plain : an Edwardian cricket murder (2022) 3 copias

On the Ashes (2023) 3 copias

Out of the running : the 2010-11 Ashes series (2011) 3 copias

Ashes 2023: a cricket classic (2023) 3 copias

Shadows on the Pitch: The Long Summer of 2017-18 (2018) 3 copias

The Momentous, Uneventful Day (2020) 2 copias

The Momentous, Uneventful Day: A Requiem for the Office (2021) 2 copias

An unfinished masterpiece 1 copia

Cricket in Mind 1 copia

The office: a cluttered history 1 copia

The Standard Bearers (2019) 1 copia

The Monthly - Bradman, the Serious Australian 1 copia

Moral Hazard: Text Classics 1 copia

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Nombre legal: Haigh, Gideon Clifford Jeffrey Davidson
Fecha de nacimiento: 1965-12-29
Género: male
Nacionalidad: UK (birth)
Australia
Lugar de nacimiento: London, England, UK
Lugares de residencia: Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Ocupaciones: cricket writer
Relaciones: Warhaft, Sally (ex partner)

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Ashes 2023: a cricket classic por Gideon Haigh

Cracking read. The story of the 2023 Ashes. Bazball - and all stuff like that. As ever great stuff from Gideon. A comment on the dustjacket is very true - A great cricket series, as reported by a great cricket writer.

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cbinstead | Jan 10, 2024 |

Shelf Life: Journalism 2000-2021 por Gideon Haigh

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Big Ship
8 January 2022

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bigship | Jan 7, 2022 |

Brilliant Boy: Doc Evatt and the Great Australian… por GIDEON HAIGH

Review to come

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bigship | Sep 5, 2021 |

Crossing the Line por Gideon Haigh

In the background of the ball tampering affair in South Africa in 2018, Haigh reviews the changes in Australian cricket in the 2010s. Haigh takes a very different approach from Geoff Lemon who reviews Australian cricket in the background of the same controversy in Steve Smith's Men. Haigh mainly evaluates the changes in the administration as it went from cricket-centric to just a business, managed by a bunch of people with limited knowledge of the game.

It is a small and important book but not a very interesting read.… (más)

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PeterCat1 | May 9, 2021 |

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