Spun Out

'He is a walking paradox. He is supremely confident, yet profoundly insecure. He is brilliant but also a buffoon. He is generous and thoughtful, but utterly self-obsessed. This book is the search for why.'

Having shone the spotlight on Kerry Packer and Alan Bond, bestselling biographer, award-winning investigative journalist and passionate cricket buff Paul Barry turns his sights on another Australian icon, Shane Warne. While Warne is undoubtedly one of the best spin bowlers in the world, 'Spun Out' won't list his averages or recount every ball he has bowled. Nor will it be solely about headlines and scandal. It will be a fascinating and unflinching portrait 'of a sportsman with an extraordinary God-given talent, of a magician who mesmerises his opponents, of a kid who won't grow up, of a man whose personal life teeters between tragedy and farce'. This is not an authorised biography. This is a story that should not be sanitised or spun. Warne's version has already been published. Now it's time for the real story: guts and glory, warts and all. And who better to deliver that than Paul Barry.