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'Who doesn't know the name Shane Warne?
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.' Source: www.penguin.com.au/ (Sighted 24/10/2012).
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The All-Rounder and the Leg-Spinner
2013
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— Appears in: Quadrant , March vol. 57 no. 3 2013; (p. 110-111)
— Review of On Warne 2012 single work biography -
The People's Nib
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 28-29 September 2013; (p. 29) -
Spun Out
2012
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— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 30 November no. 5722 2012; (p. 33)
— Review of On Warne 2012 single work biography -
From 'Demon' to Warnie
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 22 December 2012; (p. 19)
— Review of On Warne 2012 single work biography -
Fifty Shades of Great
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 28-29 December 2012; (p. 3) So many books, so little time - literary editor Susan Wyndham rounds up the years best.
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Noted : On Warne
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— Appears in: The Monthly , November no. 84 2012; (p. 64)
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Spin and a King
2012
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— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 24 November 2012; (p. 24-25) The Sydney Morning Herald , 24-25 November 2012; (p. 34-35)
— Review of On Warne 2012 single work biography ; Bradman's War : How the 1948 Invincibles Turned the Cricket Pitch into a Battlefield 2012 single work biography -
'Spin It Hard'
2012
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— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December 2012 - January 2013 no. 347 2012; (p. 41)
— Review of On Warne 2012 single work biography -
From 'Demon' to Warnie
2012
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 22 December 2012; (p. 19)
— Review of On Warne 2012 single work biography -
Spun Out
2012
single work
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— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 30 November no. 5722 2012; (p. 33)
— Review of On Warne 2012 single work biography -
Fifty Shades of Great
2012
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 28-29 December 2012; (p. 3) So many books, so little time - literary editor Susan Wyndham rounds up the years best. -
The People's Nib
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 28-29 September 2013; (p. 29) -
On Warne
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— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2012;
Awards
- 2015 shortlisted Melbourne Prize
- 2014 shortlisted National Biography Award
- 2014 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction
- 2014 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Award for Non-Fiction
- 2013 winner 'The Nib': CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature Mark and Evette Moran Nib Award for Literature — The Alex Buzo Shortlist Prize