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  • Published: 24 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9781742534701
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
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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 fascination with Warnie as it is about the player himself.

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 fascination with Warnie as it is about the player himself.

Now that the Australian cricketer who dominated airwaves and headlines for twenty years has turned full-time celebrity and media event, his sporting conquests and controversies are receding steadily into the past.
But what was it like to watch Warne at his long peak, the man of a thousand international wickets, the incarnation of Australian audacity and cheek? Our leading cricket writer, Gideon Haigh, lived and loved the Warne era, when the impossible was everyday, and the sensational every other day.

In On Warne, he relives the era's highs, its lows, its fun and its follies. Drawing on interviews conducted with Warne over the course of a decade, and two decades of watching him play, Haigh assesses this greatest of sportsmen as cricketer, character, comrade, newsmaker and national figure – a natural in an increasingly regimented time, a simplifier in a growingly complicated world. The result is one of the finest cricket books ever written, a whole new way of looking at its subject, at sport, and at Australia.
One day, you might be asked what cricket in the time of Warne was like. On Warne is the definitive account.

  • Published: 24 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9781742534701
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
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About the author

Gideon Haigh

Gideon Haigh has published more than fifty books and contributed to more than a hundred newspapers and magazines in a decades-long journalism career. His cricket books include The Cricket War, The Summer Game and On Warne, and he has written on subjects from abortion, asbestos and architecture to incest and HV Evatt. The Office: A Hardworking History won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction, and Certain Admissions won a Ned Kelly Prize for true crime. Haigh has appeared widely on radio and TV and lives in Melbourne.

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Awards & recognition

Australian Cricket Society Jack Pollard Literary Award

Winner  •  2013  •  Jack Pollard Literary Award

The Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year

Winner  •  2013  •  Book of the Year

Australian Book Industry Awards

Shortlisted  •  2013  •  Biography of the Year

Victorian Premier's Literary Award

Shortlisted  •  2013  •  Non-Fiction

Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature

Shortlisted  •  2014  •  Non-Fiction

National Biography Award

Shortlisted  •  2014  •  Biography of the Year

NSW Premier's Literary Awards

Shortlisted  •  2014  •  Douglas Stewart Prize

Melbourne Prize for Literature

Shortlisted  •  2015  •  Best Writing Award