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. In his most recent and highly acclaimed book, My Brother Jaz, published by Melbourne University Publishing, Gideon Haigh uncharacteristally writes about his own life and that of his brother Jaz, who tragically died in 1987 in a car accident at the age of seventeen. After thirty-seven years and multiple attempts at writing about his life’s greatest loss, Gideon wrote My Brother Jaz in seventy-two hours, at a time of personal crisis in January. Hailed as a "masterpiece" by The Age, My Brother Jaz is a courageous and honest examination of memory, loss and grief.