Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics: 22 'Story Time' tales from hit podcast The Final Word

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Geoff Lemon Adam Collins

Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics

22 'Story Time' tales from hit podcast The Final Word

Geoff Lemon, Adam Collins

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Affirm Press
01 December 2025

Humour; Sports & outdoor recreation; Cricket

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 Adam Collins and Geoff Lemon. Over hundreds of episodes of Story Time, the history spin-off to beloved podcast The Final Word, they have followed their listeners’ clues to track down the wildest characters, matches, and situations the pitch has seen.

Bedtime Tales for Cricket Tragics brings together the stories they enjoyed telling most, from 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 more.

By: Geoff Lemon, Adam Collins
Imprint: Affirm Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm,
ISBN: 9781923419049
ISBN 10: 1923419048
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 01 December 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Adam Collins is an Australian cricket journalist, author, and broadcaster. Before that he worked as a senior adviser to a federal Labor government, and for the organising committee of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. A Melbourne sports nut from central casting, he follows cricket and footy first, but plenty more. He has been named the Christopher Martin-Jenkins Broadcaster of the Year, and co-authored Glenn Maxwell’s autobiography. Geoff Lemon’s cricket exploits include founding pirate commentary station White Line Wireless, graduating to ABC and BBC ball-by-ball around the world, and spending 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, director of the National Young Writers Festival, has published books of poetry and essays, and still writes on politics, literature, and music.