Gideon Haigh has been a journalist for almost four decades, published more than 40 books and contributed to more than 100 newspapers and magazines. His books include The Cricket Wars, The Summer Game and On Warne (which won numerous prizes) on cricket, and works on BHP, James Hardie and how abortion became legal in Australia. His book The Office: A Hardworking History won the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction. He has appeared widely on radio and TV. He lives in Melbourne.
'Here is a master craftsman delivering one of his most finely honed
works. Meticulous in its research, humane in its storytelling, The
Brilliant Boy is Gideon Haigh at his lush, luminous best. Haigh
shines a light on person, place and era with the sheer force of his
intellect and the generosity of his words. The Brilliant Boy is
simply a brilliant book.'
*Clare Wright, Stella-Prize winning author of The Forgotten Rebels
of Eureka*
'Gideon Haigh is one of Australia’s most versatile and skilled
historians.'
*Geoffrey Blainey*
'This new biography of HV Evatt lifts the lid on his early life as
a brilliant barrister and creative Justice of the High Court of
Australia. It reveals the wellsprings that gave birth to his
humanitarian and internationalist values that later helped in the
creation of the United Nations. It helps to explain Evatt's valiant
defence of liberty in fighting off the attempt to ban the
communists in Australia. We need to constantly renew our
acquaintance with such values. This book reminds us of Evatt's
flawed genius but deep motivations, lest we ever forget.'
*The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG*
‘Gideon Haigh has a nose for Australian stories that light up the
past from new angles, and he tells this one with verve, grace and
lightly worn erudition. I couldn’t put it down.’
*The Saturday Paper*
‘An absolutely remarkable, moving and elegant re-reading of the
early life of an extraordinary Australian. Gideon Haigh is one of
Australia's finest writers and thinkers … mesmerizing … one of the
best Australian biographies I have read for a long time.'
*Canberra Times*
‘A loving act of historical and biographical recovery. No one until
Haigh has worked out how to turn it all into a compelling story.
This is the singular achievement of one of Australia’s finest
non-fiction writers. … Haigh is a master wordsmith, with a
remarkable ability to convey much with little … [a] splendid
book.’
*ABR*
‘Haigh has narrative skill and the journalistic nous to make the
story immediate and compelling … a very impressive book,
meticulously researched, without strain or longueur and animated
throughout by Haigh’s almost uncanny ability to nail the concrete
detail that humanises the theoretical point.'
*The Age & Sydney Morning Herald*
‘Riveting and at times harrowing … With sparkling prose, meticulous
research and with a command of both the law and politics, the story
of Chester and the most promising years of Evatt’s life lift off
the page. It is scholarly, erudite and beautifully written.’
*Weekend Australian*
'Gideon Haigh has always been an exquisite wordsmith, and he proves
here that he is also an intuitive historian and acute biographer
with a masterful control of the broad sweep and telling
detail’
*AFR Books of the Year*
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