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Haigh wins 2013 Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award

Australian author Gideon Haigh has won the 2013 Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award in the UK for his book On Warne (Hamish Hamilton).

Haigh was announced as the winner of this year’s £3000 (A$4440) prize on 15 April. His book was selected from a shortlist of six, which also included Never a Gentlemen’s Game by Australian author Malcolm Knox (Hardie Grant). The other shortlisted titles were: Settling The Score (Peter Gibbs, Methuen), The Plan: How Fletcher and Flower Transformed English Cricket (Steve James, Bantam), Fibber in the Heat: Following England in India, A Bagger’s Tale (Miles Jupp, Ebury) and A Remarkable Man: The Story of George Chesterton (Andrew Murtagh, Shire Publications). Keith Carmody: Keith Miller’s Favourite Captain by Australia-based author Tony Barker (ACS Publications) was among another 13 titles longlisted for the award.

Haigh previously won the award in 2000 for Mystery Spinner: The Story of Jack Iverson, which was first published in Australia by Text in 1999. A new version of the book has recently been published by Allen & Unwin under its House of Books digital imprint.

The Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year Award has been presented by the UK Cricket Society since 1970, and in partnership with the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) since 2009. The books considered for the award are nominated by Cricket Society and MCC members. Haigh is one of four non-UK writers to have won the award, and the only writer from outside the UK to win the award more than once.

For more information about the award, visit the Cricket Society website here. For more information about On Warne, visit the Penguin Australia website here.

 

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