In January 2024\, in a period of personal crisis\, Gideon Haigh abruptly started writing the story of the night his seventeen-year-old brother Jasper was killed\, finally facing how it had s haped the rest of his life. Seventy-two hours later he stopped.
\nDa rk\, raw and revealing\, \;My Brother Jaz \;is how it fee ls to lose someone\, and yourself\, even as the rest of the world turns\, and you struggle to keep up.
\nGideon Haigh \;h as 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 abortio n\, asbestos and architecture to incest and HV Evatt. \;The Office : A Hardworking History \;won the NSW Premier&rsquo\;s Literary A ward for Non-Fiction\, and \;Certain Admissions \;won a N ed Kelly Prize for true crime.
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