Gideon Haigh is the author of several acclaimed and award-winning books about cricket, including Mystery Spinner (1 85410 855 7), The Big Ship (1 85410 892 1) and Many a Slip (1 85410 871 9), all published by Aurum. He writes for the Guardian, The Times and the Wisden Cricketer.
33 Ebooks por Gideon Haigh
Gideon Haigh: Sphere of Influence
”Does cricket make money in order to exist, or does it exist in order to make money?”
In the last three years, cricket has changed more completely than in the preceding three decades, …
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Gideon Haigh: Stroke of Genius
‘;The year’sbest cricket book’ Daily Telegraph’;Well researched andengagingly written, thisexemplary workreveals a hidden historysuperbly told story’Sunday Times’;Easily thecricket book of the year, …
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Gideon Haigh: Game for Anything
Gideon Haigh’s new book covers all the great figures and major issues of cricket, by collecting all his best writing about the game. There are profiles of players past and present – Bradman, …
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Gideon Haigh: Ashes 2011
Most people gave England a modest chance of success. Some, like Glenn Mc Grath, insisted that history would repeat itself and Australia would administer another 5-0 whitewash. What no-one anticipat …
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Gideon Haigh: The Green & Golden Age : Writings on Cricket
‘The star writer of the moment and the latest in a blue-blooded lineage, reaching back to Neville Cardus through CLR James and Matthew Engel’ Wisden Cricketer Gideon Haigh’s previous …
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Gideon Haigh: Silent Revolutions
Gideon Haigh’s first collection of cricket pieces, ‘Game for Anything’, was published by Aurum in 2004 and soon sold out. This is the follow-up, also featuring a striking and off-beat cover picture. …
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Gideon Haigh: Mystery Spinner
It is no mystery that today the name of Jack Iverson is virtually unknown. For most of his life he was an unexceptional estate agent in Australia. He died in obscurity, by his own hand, at the age …
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Gideon Haigh: Big Ship : Warwick Armstrong & the Making of Modern Cricket
Warwick Armstrong was the W.G. Grace of the Antipodes. A twenty-one-stone mountain of a man, he dominated Australian cricket early in the twentieth century, leading the 1920-21 Test team to the only …
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Haigh Gideon Haigh: Cricket War
One of The Times’ 50 Greatest Sports Books In May 1977, the cricket world awoke to discover that a thirty-nine-year-old Sydney Businessman called Kerry Packer had signed thirty-five elite …
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Gideon Haigh: Book of Ashes Anecdotes
The Ashes, the symbol of cricket supremacy between England and Australia, is the game’s oldest and fiercest rivalry, still hot to the touch after a century and a quarter. The Book of Ashes Anecdotes …
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Gideon Haigh: Quarterly Essay 10 Bad Company
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Bad Company, Gideon Haigh scrutinises the way we have turned CEOs into tin gods. Is moral outrage the appropriate response to the collapses of Enron or HIH or are we all implicated in a crazy …
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Gideon Haigh: Asbestos House
Founded in 1888, James Hardie Industries is one of Australia’s oldest, richest and proudest corporations. And its fortunes were based on what proved to be one of the worst industrial poisons of the …
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Gideon Haigh: Brilliant Boy
Longlisted for the 2022 Indie Book Awards. Longlisted for the Australian Political Book of the Year Award.Chosen as a ‘;Book of the Year’ in The Australian, The Australian Financial Review and The …
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Gideon Haigh: On Warne
Gideon Haigh on Shane Warne is an irresistible pairing: ‘the finest cricket writer alive’ (The Australian) on the greatest cricketer of our times. The resulting masterpiece is as much about our …
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Gideon Haigh: Deserted Newsroom: Penguin Special
Veteran journalist Gideon Haigh assesses the future of news media in light of the internet’s effects on traditional forms of publishing and broadcasting.In the last decade, customary news media have …
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Gideon Haigh: Momentous, Uneventful Day
Has COVID-19 ushered in the end of the office? Or is it the office’s final triumph?For decades, futurologists have prophesied a boundaryless working world, freed from the cramped confines of the …
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Gideon Haigh: Ashes to Ashes
Between July 2013 and January 2014 Test cricket’s original rivals, Australia and England, played out their ultimate showdown: ten Test matches, five on each side of the world. The result was a …
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Gideon Haigh: End of the Road?: Penguin Special
Australia is one of just thirteen countries in the world equipped to take a car from design concept all the way to a showroom – a remarkable achievement in a market so small. Yet the industry has few …
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Gideon Haigh: Uncertain Corridors: Writings on modern cricket
Gideon Haigh has had a front-row seat during that decline and Uncertain Corridors collects the best of his despatches, narrating the collapse of cricket’s traditional structures and the uneasy and …
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Gideon Haigh: Certain Admissions: A Beach, a Body and a Lifetime of Secrets
Certain Admissions is Australian true crime at its best, and stranger than any crime fiction. It is real-life police procedural, courtroom drama, family saga, investigative journalism, social …
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Gideon Haigh: Stroke of Genius
Today Victor Trumper is, literally, a legend – revered for deeds lost in time, a hallowed name from the golden era from before the moving image began to dictate memories and Bradman reset the …
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Gideon Haigh: Scandal in Bohemia
As enigmatic in life as in death, Mollie Dean was a woman determined to transcend. Creatively ambitious and sexually precocious, at twenty-five she was a poet, aspiring novelist and muse on the …
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Neville Cardus: Field of Tents and Waving Colours
‘The perfect read on a summer’s afternoon in the garden, or, better still, on the boundary’, The Cricketer Before Neville Cardus, there was no such thing as cricket writing. As John Arlott said, the …
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Tim Brooks & Sahil Dutta: Second XI
As the world’s second most popular sport, cricket is much richer and more diverse than many realise. Globally, passionate players give up holidays, time with loved ones and hard-earned money to …
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Gideon Haigh: Shelf Life
Few journalists exemplify the creed ‘;without fear or favour’ like Gideon Haigh. Shelf Life selects from twenty-one years of writing on myriad subjects by one of our clearest thinkers, sharpest …
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Dan Christian: All-rounder
What is it like to follow the sun as a T20 gun for hire? Dan Christian is one of the world’s most sought after cricketers, not only a star for the Sydney Sixers but having been part of teams in …
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Gideon Haigh: Night was a Bright Moonlight and I Could See a Man Quite Plain
Gideon Haigh has written numerous acclaimed books on both cricket and true-crime now he’s unearthed a gripping story that combines the two, in a masterpiece of historical detective work that ties …
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Barry Knight: Beyond The Pavilion
Beyond The Pavilion spans seventy years of social, regional and cultural history through the eyes of one of cricket’s earliest Test match wayfarers, Barry Knight. As a ten-year-old, Barry saw Don …
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Gideon Haigh: On the Ashes
Nothing compares to the Ashes. The Ashes is always coming, even when it is finished. The Ashes is where hope, expectation, magic and chagrin flourish in equal measure, and performance is permanently …
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Wasim Akram & Gideon Haigh: Sultan
Sultan is the official biography of Wasim Akram, the sultan of swing, one of the greatest fast bowlers in the history of cricket. For twenty years, Wasim Akram let his cricket do the talking his …
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Gideon Haigh: Ashes 2023
A great cricket series, as reported by a great cricket writer.High hopes were held for the Ashes of 2023. They were exceeded in an instant classic of five Tests between a bold England and a battling …
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Gideon Haigh: Ashes 2023
A great cricket series, as reported by a great cricket writer.High hopes were held for the Ashes of 2023. They were exceeded in an instant classic of five Tests between a bold England and a battling …
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€25.11
Haigh Gideon Haigh: Cricket War
One of The Times’ 50 Greatest Sports Books In May 1977, the cricket world awoke to discover that a thirty-nine-year-old Sydney Businessman called Kerry Packer had signed thirty-five elite …
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