Summary
Shane Warne, the man of a thousand international wickets, dominated cricket on the field and off for almost thirty years. Gideon Haigh - arguably the world’s greatest cricket writer - reflects on one of cricket’s greatest stars, including a new introduction written days after his untimely death.
Shane Warne dominated cricket on the field and off for almost thirty years - his skill, his fame, his personality, his misadventures. His death in March 2022 rocked Australians, even those who…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143569176 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143569171 |
| Author: | Gideon Haigh |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 20 November 2013 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 131mm x 17mm |
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About The Author
Gideon Haigh
Historian, writer and cricket-lover Gideon Haigh has been writing about sport and business for more than 22 years. His best-known books are Mystery Spinner, The Big Ship, The Summer Game, Game for Anything and The Ashes 2005.
Gideon Haigh has been a journalist for more than three decades, has contributed to more than a hundred newspapers and magazines, published thirty-two books and edited seven others. The Office- A Hardworking History won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction; On Warne was shortlisted for the Melbourne Prize for Literature; and Certain Admissions won the 2016 Ned Kelly Award for True Crime. His latest book is Stroke of Genius- Victor Trumper and the Shot that Changed Cricket.
Gideon lives in Melbourne with his wife and daughter. Nobody has played more games for his cricket club - nor, perhaps, wanted to.
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