Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics

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Published November 17 2025
Format Hardback, Hardback signed
Pages 208
Dimensions 216 × 135 mm

Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics

Adam Collins, Geoff Lemon

Price range: £9.99 through £11.99

22 Story Times tales from hit podcast The Final Word.

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Description

No sport does storytelling like cricket – a game as full of heroes, villains, politics and drama as any Shakespearean play.

And few have explored those stories as far and wide as the presenters of the award-winning and beloved podcast The Final Word, Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins. Over hundreds of episodes of Story Time, the history spin-off to the podcast, they have followed their listeners’ clues to track down the wildest characters, matches and situations the game has ever seen.

Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics brings together the stories they enjoyed telling most, such as the 1879 riot in Sydney sparked by an umpire’s call, the all-rounder who tried to rob the Catholic Church, the biggest defeat in history, and much, much more.

Produced as a small hardback with fabulous original illustrations by Karen Wallis, Bedtime Tales is perfect for the casual cricket fan and would make an excellent Christmas or birthday gift.

Praise for Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics

Few have explored cricket's quirky stories as far and wide as Geoff Lemon and Adam Collins.

About the Author

Adam Collins is an award-winning cricket commentator and writer, having previously worked in Australian federal politics advising a Prime Minister and a Treasurer. Forever a Melbourne sports nut but now living in London, 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 world for a decade. In 2024, he co-authored Glenn Maxwell’s autobiography.

About the Author

Geoff Lemon founded pirate commentary station White Line Wireless, graduated to ABC and BBC ball-by-ball around the world, and has spent the last dozen years as the principal cricket writer for Guardian Australia. His book Steve Smith’s Men, on the Cape Town sandpaper scandal, won multiple awards. Outside cricket, he was the longtime editor of literary anthology Going Down Swinging and director of the National Young Writers Festival. He has published books of poetry and essays, and still writes on politics, literature, and music.

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