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, mehr anzeigen 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) weniger anzeigen

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The Ashes

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The Uncyclopedia (2003) 142 Exemplare

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

On Warne (2012) 44 Exemplare

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Office: A Hardworking History (2012) 24 Exemplare

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

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

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

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

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

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack Australia 1998 (1998) 17 Exemplare

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

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

Ashes to Ashes (2014) 14 Exemplare

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

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

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

Crossing the Line (2018) 14 Exemplare

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

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

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

A Scandal in Bohemia (2018) 12 Exemplare

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

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

The Border years (1994) 10 Exemplare

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

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

The tencyclopedia (2004) 8 Exemplare

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

End of the road? (2013) 8 Exemplare

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

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

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

Australian Cricket Anecdotes (1996) 6 Exemplare

The Deserted Newsroom: Penguin Specials (2012) 5 Exemplare

The battle for BHP (1987) 5 Exemplare

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

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

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

The Ashes 2009 (2009) 5 Exemplare

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

Deciclopédia (2008) 4 Exemplare

The Book of Ashes Anecdotes (2006) 4 Exemplare

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

On the Ashes (2023) 3 Exemplare

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

Ashes 2023: a cricket classic (2023) 3 Exemplare

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

The Momentous, Uneventful Day (2020) 2 Exemplare

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

An unfinished masterpiece 1 Exemplar

Cricket in Mind 1 Exemplar

The office: a cluttered history 1 Exemplar

The Standard Bearers (2019) 1 Exemplar

The Monthly - Bradman, the Serious Australian 1 Exemplar

Moral Hazard: Text Classics 1 Exemplar

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The Best Australian Essays 2008 (2008) — Mitwirkender — 28 Exemplare

The Best Australian Essays 2006 (2006) — Mitwirkender — 23 Exemplare

The Best Australian Essays 2002 (2002) — Mitwirkender — 22 Exemplare

The Best Australian Essays 2009 (2009) — Mitwirkender — 21 Exemplare

The Best Australian Essays 2001 (2001) — Mitwirkender — 20 Exemplare

The Best Australian Essays 2003 (2003) — Mitwirkender — 15 Exemplare

My Favourite Cricketer (2010) — Mitwirkender — 10 Exemplare

The Year of the Balls: 2008: A Disrespective (2009) — Vorwort, einige Ausgaben — 1 Exemplar

Home Ground : reflections of the Melbourne Cricket Ground 2001-2002 (2003) — Vorwort — 1 Exemplar

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Rechtmäßiger Name: Haigh, Gideon Clifford Jeffrey Davidson
Geburtstag: 1965-12-29
Geschlecht: male
Nationalität: UK (birth)
Australia
Geburtsort: London, England, UK
Wohnorte: Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Berufe: cricket writer
Beziehungen: Warhaft, Sally (ex partner)

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Ashes 2023: a cricket classic von 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 von 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… von GIDEON HAIGH

Review to come

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bigship | Sep 5, 2021 |

Crossing the Line von 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.… (mehr)

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PeterCat1 | May 9, 2021 |

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