The LiebCricket Christmas Catalogue
Gifts for your weirdest loved ones
It’s a month until Christmas! (Perhaps you’ve been reminded of this by the Cricket Australia Elf.)
You’re no doubt just beginning to look 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 get them my latest book, Australian Cricket’s Best of the Best.
What’s it all about? I explain here.
Want an autographed copy of the book with my pen scrawling a personalised message on the page? We can arrange that (although stocks are now very limited) via this link: https://www.liebcricket.com/bestofthebest
Or maybe you simply want to buy a copy from your local bookstore. Find the nearest such store via this link: https://yourbookstore.io/p/australian-cricket-s-best-of-the-best-the-outrageous-unofficial-history-of-the-allan-border-medal?barcode=9781923022119
Want to order it online? Try Booktopia: https://www.booktopia.com.au/australian-cricket-s-best-of-the-best-dan-liebke/book/9781923022119.html
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: https://newsletter.liebcricket.com/p/book-updates-including-autographs
For Your Loved One Who Is Notoriously Tardy
(eg a scatterbrained brother-in-law who always loses his keys)
Sounds like the kind of person who might have missed out on last year’s book, The 100 Funniest Moments in Australian Cricket, which sold out with indecent haste.
Learn more about that book here:
Anyway, The 100 Funniest Moments in Australian Cricket is now triumphantly back in stock! Surprise your emptyheaded loved one with your swift credit card deployment.
Again, go to my online store: https://liebcricket.com/100funniest
Or visit your local bookstore: https://yourbookstore.io/p/the-100-funniest-moments-in-australian-cricket?barcode=9781922992062
Or online via Booktopia: https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-100-funniest-moments-in-australian-cricket-dan-liebke/book/9781922992062.html
Plus, autographs are available for them too.
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 2024 edition): https://www.liebcricket.com/store/product/dan-liebkes-wasted-review-of-cricket-2024-ebook/
For paperback versions, Amazon is your port of call: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0BXJXYZ54?binding=paperback&qid=1732444950&sr=1-1
For Your Precocious Loved One Who Enjoys Sci-Fi And Adventure
(eg your ten-year-old grandchild who always has their nose in a book, hungering and craving for more input for their rapidly evolving pre-pubescent brain)
Well, come on now. I have a children’s book precisely written for this type of child. It’s Alex O’Hallory, The Best Junior Cricketer In The Galaxy – Book One: New Earthling In Town.
Learn more about this particular book here.
For ebook versions, you’ll want my online store: https://www.liebcricket.com/store/product/alex-ohallory-the-best-junior-cricketer-in-the-galaxy-book-1/
For paperback versions? Amazon is once more your friend: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0D3HRTF1F
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.
https://newsletter.liebcricket.com/gift
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.
https://www.liebcricket.com/store/product/sloggers-sledgers/
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 improbably claim to love.
Go. Have at it. Before one of these so-called extra loved ones shows up to take you to lunch or something.