It’s just over a week until Christmas! You’re no doubt looking for gifts for all the special people in your life. Boy, do I have you covered.
For Your Loved One Who Has Everything (eg a wealthy cousin who your grandmother clearly favours)
Looking to buy for the kind of person who already has all my books and is just itching for another one?
You’ll need to give them my latest book, The 50 Most Ridiculous Ashes Moments, co-written with Alex Bowden.
What’s it all about? I explain here.
Want an autographed copy with my pen scrawling a personalised message on the page? We can arrange that (although stocks are very limited and you’ll have to be super-quick (and in Australia) if you want it by Christmas).
Or maybe you simply want to buy a copy from your local bookstore. Find the nearest one via this link.
Want to order it online? Try this link.
Oh, and if you get a copy from somewhere other than my online store and still want an autograph? That’s available for free too. (But, again, you’ll need to be very fast indeed.)
For Your Loved One Who Is An Aspiring Writer
(eg a tedious brother-in-law who insists he’s going to write that history of garden sheds just as soon as he finds a spare couple of weeks)
Sounds like the kind of person who might enjoy shadowing me as I write my next book, watching how I go from a mishmash of half ideas and scattered thoughts to a book ready for submission to my publisher.
Don’t muck about with this one, though. Seats are strictly limited.
More info here.
Or, heck, just jump straight over to the online store and buy it while the going is good.
For Your Loved One With A Sense of History
(eg a fastidious uncle with a complete set of Dickens)
This sounds like the kind of person who would revel in one (or more!) of my Wasted Reviews, the books that bring together all my daily report cards for all the cricket I watch.
You can get ebook versions from my online store (including my latest 2025 edition).
For paperback versions, Amazon is your port of call:
For Your Loved One On The Cutting Edge of Technology
(eg a teenager who won’t put their phone down for even an instant, not even while we’re having dinner, for goodness sake)
If they’re going to be looking at their phone, then let them be looking at my newsletter, via a subscription.
Mostly, it’s cricket, but there’s also some pop culture stuff in there, as well, often hidden behind precisely the kind of paywalls you’d be helping them circumvent.
A paid subscription comes with all manner of other benefits too, including discount codes to everything in my online store and free access to my self-published ebooks. So, hey, maybe splurge on a subscription for yourself as well?
For Your Loved One Who Enjoys Playing Games
(eg a nerdy niece, who keeps showing off her inscrutable bag of dice)
Hey, it’s not all books here. If you have somebody who just wants to play, then you can get them Sloggers & Sledgers, the unique cricket roleplaying game, in the style of Dungeons & Dragons.
Create a cricketer and tour strange, far-off nations, filled with fearsome opponents, probing journalists, baying crowds and other frightful perils.
Or maybe they’d prefer a strategic card game in the style of Secret Hitler or Werewolf or Blood on the Clocktower? Then you’ll want It’s Just Not Cricket, a strategy card game for 4 to 11 players, based around cricket match-fixing. There’s a match-fixer in your team. Work out who it is before the Test is lost!
Or why not buy both games? What a way to show your beloved gamer how much they mean to you!
Other Kinds of Loved Ones
You have more loved ones than that? Huh. Aren’t you the fancy one?
Fine, check out the rest of my store. Poke around. There’s got to be something in there for all of the never-ending array of people you love.