Gideon Haigh

Author of The Uncyclopedia

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About the Author

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, show more 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) show less

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The Ashes

Works by Gideon Haigh

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The Uncyclopedia (2003) 148 copies, 3 reviews

The cricket war: The inside story of Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket (1993) 53 copies, 3 reviews

Stroke of Genius: Victor Trumper and the Shot That Changed Cricket (2016) 48 copies, 1 review

On Warne (2012) 47 copies

Mystery Spinner: The Story of Jack Iverson (1999) 42 copies, 2 reviews

Peter the Lord's Cat: And Other Unexpected Obituaries from Wisden (2006) 34 copies, 1 review

Game for Anything: Writings on Cricket (2004) 28 copies, 1 review

Silent Revolutions: Writings on Cricket History (2006) 28 copies, 1 review

Asbestos House: The Secret History of James Hardie Industries (2006) 27 copies

Brilliant Boy: Doc Evatt and the Great Australian Dissent (2021) 26 copies, 1 review

The Office: A Hardworking History (2012) 26 copies

The Big Ship: Warwick Armstrong and the Making of Modern Cricket (2001) 26 copies, 1 review

Ashes 2005 (2005) 25 copies

Bad Company: The Strange Cult of the CEO (2003) 25 copies, 1 review

Certain Admissions (2015) 22 copies, 3 reviews

Sphere of Influence: Writings on Cricket and Its Discontents (2010) 20 copies, 2 reviews

Inside Out: Writings on Cricket Culture (2008) 19 copies, 1 review

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack Australia 2001-01 (3rd Edition) (2000) 18 copies, 1 review

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack Australia 1998 (1998) 17 copies

The Summer Game: Australia in Test Cricket 1949-71 (1997) 16 copies

Crossing the Line (2018) 15 copies, 1 review

Downed Under: The Ashes in Australia 2006-2007 (2007) 15 copies

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack Australia 1999 (1999) 15 copies

Ashes to ashes : how Australia came back and England came unstuck, 2013-14 (2014) 15 copies, 1 review

A Scandal in Bohemia (2018) 14 copies, 4 reviews

The Green & Golden Age: Writings on Cricket (2007) 14 copies, 1 review

Parachutist at Fine Leg: And Other Unusual Occurrences from Wisden (2007) 14 copies, 1 review

Ashes 2011: England's Record-Breaking Series Victory (2011) 14 copies, 1 review

Endless summer : 140 years of Australian cricket in Wisden (2002) 13 copies

Many a Slip: A Diary of a Club Cricket Season (2002) 13 copies

The Racket: How Abortion Became Legal in Australia (2008) 12 copies, 1 review

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

The Border years (1994) 11 copies

Inside Story: Unlocking Australian Cricket's Archives (2007) 11 copies

End of the road? (2013) 10 copies

The Vincibles (2002) 10 copies

The Penguin Book Of Ashes Anecdotes 1882 2005 (2006) 8 copies

The tencyclopedia (2004) 8 copies

The summer game : cricket and Australia in the 50s and 60s (2006) 7 copies, 1 review

My Brother Jaz (2024) 7 copies

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

Shelf Life: Journalism 2000-2021 (2021) 6 copies, 1 review

Australian Cricket Anecdotes (1996) 6 copies

Ashes 2009: The Full Story of Test Series (2009) 6 copies, 1 review

Uncertain Corridors: Writings on Modern Cricket (2013) 6 copies

One of a kind: The story of Bankers Trust Australia, 1969-99 (1999) 5 copies

One Summer, Every Summer: an Ashes Journal (1995) 5 copies

The Ashes 2009 (2009) 5 copies

The battle for BHP (1987) 5 copies

The Book of Ashes Anecdotes (2006) 5 copies

The deserted newsroom (2012) 5 copies

Ashes 2023: a cricket classic (2023) 4 copies, 1 review

On the Ashes (2023) 4 copies

Deciclopédia (2008) 4 copies

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

The Night was a Bright Moonlight and I Could See a Man Quite Plain: An Edwardian Cricket Murder (2022) 3 copies

The Momentous, Uneventful Day (2020) 3 copies

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

Stroke Of Genius (2017) 2 copies

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

Cricket in Mind 1 copy

An unfinished masterpiece 1 copy

Moral Hazard: Text Classics 1 copy

The Standard Bearers (2019) 1 copy

The Monthly - Bradman, the Serious Australian 1 copy

The One Indiscretion of His Life - William Carkeek, Cricketer, Footballer, Worker 1 copy

Indian summers : Australia versus India : cricket’s battle of the titans 1 copy

The office: a cluttered history 1 copy

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Associated Works

The Best Australian Essays 2008 (2008) — Contributor — 28 copies, 1 review

The Best Australian Essays 2006 (2006) — Contributor — 23 copies, 1 review

The Best Australian Essays 2002 (2002) — Contributor — 22 copies

The Best Australian Essays 2009 (2009) — Contributor — 22 copies

The Best Australian Essays 2001 (2001) — Contributor — 21 copies

The Best Australian Essays 2003 (2003) — Contributor — 15 copies

My Favourite Cricketer (2010) — Contributor — 10 copies, 1 review

The Year Of The Balls 2008: A Disrespective (2009) — Foreword, some editions — 1 copy

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

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Common Knowledge

Legal name: Haigh, Gideon Clifford Jeffrey Davidson
Birthdate: 1965-12-29
Gender: male
Nationality: UK (birth)
Australia
Birthplace: London, England, UK
Places of residence: Geelong, Victoria, Australia
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupations: cricket writer
Relationships: Warhaft, Sally (ex partner)

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

Review to come

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bigship | Sep 5, 2021 |

Crossing the Line by 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.… (more)

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PeterCat1 | May 9, 2021 |

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