Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

189 kr

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No sport does storytelling like cricket – a game as full of heroes, villains, politics and drama as anyShakespearean play.And few have explored those stories as far and wide as the presenters of the award-winning and belovedpodcast The Final Word, Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins. Over hundreds of episodes of Story Time, the historyspin-off to the podcast, they have followed their listeners’ clues to track down the wildest characters, matchesand situations the game has ever seen.Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics brings together the stories they enjoyed telling most, such as the 1879 riot inSydney sparked by an umpire’s call, the all-rounder who tried to rob the Catholic Church, the biggest defeat inhistory, and much, much more.Produced as a small hardback with fabulous original illustrations by Karen Wallis, Bedtime Tales is perfect forthe casual cricket fan and would make an excellent Christmas or birthday gift.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-11-17
Mått135 x 216 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor208
FörlagFairfield Books
ISBN9781915237705

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Geoff Lemon founded pirate commentary station White Line Wireless, graduated to ABC and BBC ball-by-ballaround the world, and has spent the last dozen years as the principal cricket writer for Guardian Australia. Hisbook Steve Smith’s Men, on the Cape Town sandpaper scandal, won multiple awards. Outside cricket, he wasthe longtime editor of literary anthology Going Down Swinging and director of the National Young WritersFestival. He has published books of poetry and essays, and still writes on politics, literature, and music.Adam Collins is an award-winning cricket commentator and writer, having previously worked in Australianfederal politics advising a Prime Minister and a Treasurer. Forever a Melbourne sports nut but now living inLondon, he follows cricket and footy first, but plenty more besides. He was named the Christopher Martin-Jenkins Broadcaster of the Year, and has covered international cricket on radio and television around the worldfor a decade. In 2024, he co-authored Glenn Maxwell’s autobiography.