Ashes to Ashes: How Australia Came Back and England Came Unstuck, 2013-14

Gideon Haigh

Penguin Random House, 2014 - Sports & Recreation - 301 pages

Between July 2013 and January 2014 Test cricket's original rivals, Australia and England, played out their ultimate showdown: ten Test matches, five on each side of the world. The result was a sporting epic, contests of gruelling intensity in front of packed houses from start to finish, with the Ashes prised from England's grip of more than four years as Australia turned initial disarray into outright dominance. How did Australia go from a 0?3 failure away to a 5?0 triumph at home? Gideon Haigh saw every ball bowled ? a sportswriting odyssey in itself ? and Ashes to Ashes collects his firsthand reporting from both hemispheres of this unrepeatable experience.

About the author

Historian, writer and cricket-lover Gideon Haigh has been writing about sport and business for more than 22 years. His best-known books are Mystery Spinner, The Big Ship, The Summer Game, Game for Anything and The Ashes 2005. Gideon Haigh has been a journalist for more than three decades, has contributed to more than a hundred newspapers and magazines, published thirty-two books and edited seven others. The Office- A Hardworking History won the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction; On Warne was shortlisted for the Melbourne Prize for Literature; and Certain Admissions won the 2016 Ned Kelly Award for True Crime. His latest book is Stroke of Genius- Victor Trumper and the Shot that Changed Cricket. Gideon lives in Melbourne with his wife and daughter. Nobody has played more games for his cricket club - nor, perhaps, wanted to.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Ashes to Ashes: How Australia Came Back and England Came Unstuck, 2013-14
• Author: Gideon Haigh
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Penguin Random House, 2014
• ISBN: 0670077771, 9780670077779
• Length: 301 pages
• Subjects: Sports & Recreation / Business Aspects; Sports & Recreation / Cricket; Sports & Recreation / General